Bored of your everyday outfits? Making big plans for shopping to transform your style closet in this season? One of the must-haves in your collection is pretty tops featuring embroidered detailing.

Lan Lin works on her embroidery. She is an inheritor of Zhuang embroidery from the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. LIANG SHUN/XINHUA NANNING — Wearing an apron with intricately embroidered patterns ...