Both Shui men and women wear dark as well as off-blue clothes. Men often wear long shirts with wide lapels and wrap their heads with blue cloth. Women wear blouses with collarless, wide lapels that they decorate with colorful laces. Their blue trousers are also decorated with colorful laces. They like to wrap their waists with blue-green scarfs.
Women wear skirts during festivals and pull their hair up into a knot.
For grand festivals or special gatherings, they wear various kinds of silver earrings, necklaces and bracelets. The Shui practice monogamy as well as exogamy. Usually Shui youth become engaged at fifteen years and marry around seventeen. In the beginning of the marriage, the bride seldom lives with her husband's family. After half a year she will move in with her husband.