absolutelyBangkok archive · Being farang
Originally published March 31, 2008
They gave the “flower putsch” back in September 2006 that certain extra — the pom pom girls who wore military outfits: Caps, skirts, blouses sporting those camouflage colors, while those light girls were happily dancing in front of the heavy boys and their tanks.
At a sales office recently, I was astonished to meet a girl wearing the classic yellow shirt — and a military skirt! Now that’s a new sales technique: A combination of the ever-present yellow and military-camouflage. If that’s no political statement?
But, as the Bangkok Post recently told us, the Defense Council has decided that military-style camouflage clothing is now a fashion taboo. Goodbye you fashionable wannabe-soldiers. The council suggests: For those enjoying to wear fancy military gear “take the clothes out of the closet and dye them.” As if the military’s image had suffered after the coup… At least children are exempt from the ban:
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