back then majority of Laos were wear nothing on the top most of the time sometime they use something to cover up just like in ChiangMai you can see a lot of photo of female bare their breasts on the street. but Lao don't have a lot of the photo because the French changed you first before the picture were took.
back then majority of Laos were wear nothing on the top most of the time sometime they use something to cover up just like in ChiangMai you can see a lot of photo of female bare their breasts on the street. but Lao don't have a lot of the photo because the French changed you first before the picture were took.
You were wrong brother to say that french change lao before picture were taken, the french came-in 1893, back then we were worn Phamai and pha salong already. i mean the real (Takoontai) people like Lao and Siam.. Oh the picture you see here, the french found them deep in the Jungle, some tribes in either Southern or Northern laos somewhere, i've seen and read them somewhere just couldn't remember..
After '96 the tube skirt (phasin) was brought back into the consciousness of the northern people but as Vithi says, "nobody wanted to wear it, they thought it was for servants. The image of Thai culture was a Thai Airways air hostess in a Jim Thompson catalogue dressed in silk, it was very hard to get girls to wear the wraps, people were saying that this style was hill tribe, not Thai." But through cultural footnotes, photos, pictures and paintings it was evident that girls did wear tube skirts, it was also evident that many often went completely topless. Vithi upset the apple cart after he produced a cultural show where men wore loin cloths and had tattoos, and the women reflected their topless past by simply wrapping a cloth around their breasts, baring their stomachs and shoulders. "This caused a lot of controversy at the time. People were concerned about the nakedness, they wanted to be idealistic about their past. But we had followed the Thai DNA, we had investigated the past."
"The missionaries taught modesty, and in the Thai courts in Bangkok people became familiar with Victorian England, as more royals studied there. There was a royal decree sent to Chiang Mai in the early twentieth century ordering women to 'cover up'. Men even had to cover their tattoos." After the decree, Vithi explains, that girls started to wear blouses, while the ministry of culture went one step further and expressed that all women should "wear hats and kiss their husbands before they went to work . . . they were also ordered to cut down all the betel nut trees." This is what the ajarn calls the 'European Effect', Thai norms and traditions, especially those of the northern tribes, had become unseemly and before you could say 'cultural totalitarianism' stained red teeth and exposed overworked nipples were outlawed. The controversial ajarn adds, "The ministry tried to create a new culture that was more 'civilised', and attempted to obliterate the old culture."
Topless women back then was no big of a deal until the western power came and shook things up and we decided that we have to chang ourselve or be colonized because the missionaries were in Siam long before that but people still topless.
After '96 the tube skirt (phasin) was brought back into the consciousness of the northern people but as Vithi says, "nobody wanted to wear it, they thought it was for servants. The image of Thai culture was a Thai Airways air hostess in a Jim Thompson catalogue dressed in silk, it was very hard to get girls to wear the wraps, people were saying that this style was hill tribe, not Thai." But through cultural footnotes, photos, pictures and paintings it was evident that girls did wear tube skirts, it was also evident that many often went completely topless. Vithi upset the apple cart after he produced a cultural show where men wore loin cloths and had tattoos, and the women reflected their topless past by simply wrapping a cloth around their breasts, baring their stomachs and shoulders. "This caused a lot of controversy at the time. People were concerned about the nakedness, they wanted to be idealistic about their past. But we had followed the Thai DNA, we had investigated the past."
"The missionaries taught modesty, and in the Thai courts in Bangkok people became familiar with Victorian England, as more royals studied there. There was a royal decree sent to Chiang Mai in the early twentieth century ordering women to 'cover up'. Men even had to cover their tattoos." After the decree, Vithi explains, that girls started to wear blouses, while the ministry of culture went one step further and expressed that all women should "wear hats and kiss their husbands before they went to work . . . they were also ordered to cut down all the betel nut trees." This is what the ajarn calls the 'European Effect', Thai norms and traditions, especially those of the northern tribes, had become unseemly and before you could say 'cultural totalitarianism' stained red teeth and exposed overworked nipples were outlawed. The controversial ajarn adds, "The ministry tried to create a new culture that was more 'civilised', and attempted to obliterate the old culture."
Sarong is a more closer termanology to Lao sinh or ສິ້ນຝ້າຍ ຫຼື ສິ້ນໄຫມ. Tube skirt as you can see from to picture shown above, it's wore above nkee lenght to be consider as a term for Lao sinh.
hey, that's a very nice photo. sorry, i hijacked your photo but i really like that look.
she be miss lao for me too.
I am sure that you would agree with me, She is look better than Miss Lux...in Laos.. this sone no photoshop making up ok. some people are blind here.. haha