The dress aesthetics in A Dream of Red Mansions is closed to the nature.CAO Xueqin utilizes quite a few of color words and makes his literary work more artistic so that the readers can catch the picture of the author's in their mind as if they were in the situation which the author describes.Meanwhile,it makes the description more accurately,vividly,specifically and flexibly.This article deals with the classification of different types of dress color words in YANG Xianyi and Gladys Yang's translation of A Dream of Red Mansions and the translation of dress color words,including the translation of the basic color words,object color words and special color words with other concepts.