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Post by acjade on Jul 1, 2005 8:47:36 GMT 7
Also, a fine example of Kitsch. In any time or place. Especially with a 'Marylin' happening.  I bet it would make the men drop their singlets. But it might start a new and worrying trend. |
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Post by Mr Nobody on Jul 1, 2005 8:57:33 GMT 7
CONN!!! DO NOT, I REPEAT DO NOT WEAR YOUR KILT IN CHINA!!!
Please.
I don't think I could handle it if it became a trend.
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Post by gengrant on Jul 1, 2005 11:23:32 GMT 7
and who said I was tall and/or rangy? how about a short, middle-aged Texan...?   |
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Post by acjade on Jul 1, 2005 16:27:08 GMT 7
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Post by gengrant on Jul 2, 2005 2:45:25 GMT 7
notice I didn't say anything about wearing the kilt?   |
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Post by Chips Downe on Oct 10, 2005 21:03:39 GMT 7
Ah, you guys must be new... Chinese high fashion seems to be modelled on HK or Japanese or Korean couture...Probably the Japanese started it. Let's face it, they generally take the worst of our cultures too... would it be racist to say that the Chinese just, well, don't have any taste? I mean, it's true isn't it!
I've seen the plastic palm trees in Inner Mongolia in MINUS FORTY degree weather - yeah, wished I'd had my camera...
The pjamas always crack me up though, glad someone mentioned that although I'm not sure if it's kitsch...and they're worn with such sang froid! Men and women...mind you, I don't think I've ever seen a Chinese wear pjamas in bed, only underwear (or winter underwear...well, I can understand that too...what use would pjamas be in most of the weather extremes we get here?) (Did I just admit - no, it's nothing or, for a brief period like now, waiting for the heating to be turned on, thermal underwear).
Again, not what I'd call particularly kitsch but (Mr Nobody, You are always so wise!) Yiii, those TV's! Ever time I move I end up looking for a xiao fandian without a blaring TV...and end up looking for outside tables and eating more of that damn yan rouchar (yeah, but I've just had so much of it...) They can't ever do one thing at a time can they? Talk on their mobile phones and eat and watch TV all at the same time- no wonder they never do anything well...although I suppose it also takes their mind off the crap food. These days whenever a student (like today) informs me sententiously that they don't like fast food I quickly agree. I say I can't understand why it takes so long for my friends to order food in a Chinese restaurant and then the food instantly appears, invariably before they've got the lid off the baijiu or beer, or if they have opened the stuff, before they've come back with cups or glasses to drink it out of (well, it's a lot to think of at once when the TV's blaring isn't it...and maybe this is the reason Chinese people always give instructions about 3 times, and why they always shout...they're used to people being switched off...like most of my students...in a daze...do you think there's something in the water or is it just the mind-numbing dullness of 'Chinese culture'?)
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Post by gengrant on Oct 10, 2005 22:15:37 GMT 7
Ah, you guys must be new... Chinese high fashion seems to be modelled on HK or Japanese or Korean couture...Probably the Japanese started it. Let's face it, they generally take the worst of our cultures too... would it be racist to say that the Chinese just, well, don't have any taste? I mean, it's true isn't it! I've seen the plastic palm trees in Inner Mongolia in MINUS FORTY degree weather - yeah, wished I'd had my camera... The pjamas always crack me up though, glad someone mentioned that although I'm not sure if it's kitsch...and they're worn with such sang froid! Men and women...mind you, I don't think I've ever seen a Chinese wear pjamas in bed, only underwear (or winter underwear...well, I can understand that too...what use would pjamas be in most of the weather extremes we get here?) (Did I just admit - no, it's nothing or, for a brief period like now, waiting for the heating to be turned on, thermal underwear). Again, not what I'd call particularly kitsch but (Mr Nobody, You are always so wise!) Yiii, those TV's! Ever time I move I end up looking for a xiao fandian without a blaring TV...and end up looking for outside tables and eating more of that damn yan rouchar (yeah, but I've just had so much of it...) They can't ever do one thing at a time can they? Talk on their mobile phones and eat and watch TV all at the same time- no wonder they never do anything well...although I suppose it also takes their mind off the crap food. These days whenever a student (like today) informs me sententiously that they don't like fast food I quickly agree. I say I can't understand why it takes so long for my friends to order food in a Chinese restaurant and then the food instantly appears, invariably before they've got the lid off the baijiu or beer, or if they have opened the stuff, before they've come back with cups or glasses to drink it out of (well, it's a lot to think of at once when the TV's blaring isn't it...and maybe this is the reason Chinese people always give instructions about 3 times, and why they always shout...they're used to people being switched off...like most of my students...in a daze...do you think there's something in the water or is it just the mind-numbing dullness of 'Chinese culture'?) "I'm a travellin' ramblin' man, made a lot of stops...all over the world"  |
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Post by Kurochan on Oct 15, 2005 19:48:23 GMT 7
While my mom was here, we saw a woman wearing ankle socks under pantyhose! That was an amazing thing to see.
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Post by Mr Nobody on Oct 15, 2005 21:31:49 GMT 7
The whole fashion thing here gets me. The gay hairdresser look just freaks me out. People wearing ankle stockings with skirts. Walking down the street wearing pyjamas. The weird long shoes - for women it was weird. For men, downright freaky. Calf length pants. Bras are padded for protection? WTF is that about?
No idea of sexy underclothes. Glitter is a fashion statement. Slip-on shoes. plastic sandals worn outside. Ankle socks for men. Brown and other dull colours, or luminescent colours. NOthing in between. The jeans environment is spacy - nothing makes any sense. Orange is a popular colour for girls. Men wear dirt colours.
There is no reason why.
Oh, I have this theory. Chinese people are hard of hearing. THis explains a lot.
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Post by con's fly is open on Oct 16, 2005 0:10:21 GMT 7
The preppy look would do them so much good. But I think I'd miss the Miami Vice outfits and combovers and polyester. And banger haircuts for women are in this year. Variety over taste, I say. Plus they make us look good standing beside them.
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Post by Ruth on Oct 16, 2005 7:28:42 GMT 7
See the t-shirt thread and George's reference to one of his students wearing a t-shirt that said 'grabber' on it. But they'd add lace or glitter to mess it up. I've seen lovely skirt/jacket suits that would be on the high end of class for a teacher's outfit. Lace all around the bottom of the skirt. What's up with that? Looks like one's slip is showing - and they do this on purpose. I thought that when I first moved here. i.e. "I dress normally and you don't." But now I realize that I am the odd one out. But I'm not changing my wardrobe  |
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Post by con's fly is open on Oct 16, 2005 19:04:38 GMT 7
China is, fashion-wise, a melting pot like no other. They take nerddom to a new dimension: beehives, combovers, mullets and banger hair; Miami Vice, grannywear, ankle nlons and stirrup pants; high heels and plastic flipflops. I have seen the wackiest combinations on people.
Sooner or later, some fashion disaster out of China's gonna hit the world stage by storm.
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Post by Chips Downe on Oct 20, 2005 20:54:29 GMT 7
Glitter is a fashion statement... I've been cracking up over that since I read it. Followed - sorry - walked home behind - a woman tonight who was wearing pjamas - but the bottoms of the winter longjohns were also poking out. Now if she'd had ankle socks!
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Post by Chips Downe on Oct 21, 2005 22:35:10 GMT 7
Gotta add... saw it again today and was reminded, if we're talking about fashion : the HEAD TOWELS... When I visit my student's farm we stay in the grandparents' ahem, shack... and they're lovely old dears - evidently last time grandma was asking when I'm coming back again... but she's sitting there squinting at me with this ragged piece of towel on her head... actually grandpa has quite a classy big straw hat, but even in town (well, the suburbs) I see old women with this towel affair... My hair's beginning to go these days too (I put it down to the food - lack of vitamins or maybe too much DDT) I'm going to turn up for class one day with a towel...
Hey, second observation... ever see a Chinese man with a white or even grey hair? You wouldn't think they'd be vain...(think of Jiang Zemin...)
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Post by Newbs on Oct 22, 2005 11:59:30 GMT 7
They're pretty rare, I'll admit, but a few of the octagenerains (at least I guess they are) have a snow white thatch.
Pavarotti is in Melbourne at the moment on his farewell tour, and he heads to China sometime soon. Check him out. I've got great repesct for him, the boy can sing. But to see him, aged 70, at a press conference with the hair, eyebrows and beard as black as the ace of spades is a little sad, IMHO.
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Post by Chips Downe on Oct 30, 2005 11:07:46 GMT 7
Now if Pavarotti would put that hanky on his head...
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