• North Korea's Dreary Look Hit With Fashion Revolt
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[QUOTE]One of the most visible images of North Korea has long been how grey and monotone the country is, like a black-and-white movie. Bare mountains, vast stretches of empty roads with no cars except rundown bicycles, concrete buildings with many broken windows, store signs in all similar off-white fonts with few products on display, dark nights without electricity, and practically everyone wearing same grey communist style utilitarian jumpsuits or at times plain black suits.[/QUOTE] [img]http://a.abcnews.com/images/International/AP_north_korea_kab_141002_16x9_992.jpg[/img] [url]http://abcnews.go.com/International/north-koreas-dreary-hit-fashion-revolt/story?id=25917867[/url] North Korea is suffering from low fashion apparently
Half the stories from the old communist days in Yugoslavia are about people going to Italy to buy Levi's jeans, Nike shoes, Milka chocolate... and how they smuggled it across the border. Now when you have all this imported you don't appreciate these things anymore.
Capitalism is fashionable
They're just following south korea. South Korea is already the most fashionable country in the world I'm really hopeful for NK. I think the trend towards opening a foreign market in NK is good and I hope some day even Americans can go in and work. I, for one, would be excited to go there and help build their communications infrastructure. I'm a CS major and Korean minor and this would be such an experience to go towards.
I guess the leader's wife broke the concrete hard mold and inspired some colorful fashions to take hold. [QUOTE]Ri [Kim's wife] astonished North Korea watchers when she sported a plush leather quilted Christian Dior handbag in August 2012. Since then her figure hugging dresses, bolero jackets, dotted prints, and kill hill platform shoes have become in fashion to Pyongyang ladies.[/QUOTE] Now she needs to start publicly disagreeing with the leader to inspire actual revolution.
Don't get your hopes up, this is only among the elites of the country
[QUOTE=Jund;46145265]Don't get your hopes up, this is only among the elites of the country[/QUOTE] :suicide:
So, I'm guessing they have a real fashion police for such situations?
[QUOTE=Ignhelper;46145503]So, I'm guessing they have a real fashion police for such situations?[/QUOTE] "you will be released from the gulag immediately upon copping a sick rick fit"
[QUOTE=Lord of Ears;46146709]"you will be released from the gulag immediately upon copping a sick rick fit"[/QUOTE] "Are those socks under your sandals? Get him out boys, execute by the morning!"
[QUOTE=AntonioR;46144091]Half the stories from the old communist days in Yugoslavia are about people going to Italy to buy Levi's jeans, Nike shoes, Milka chocolate... and how they smuggled it across the border. Now when you have all this imported you don't appreciate these things anymore.[/QUOTE] Dad told me a lot of stories about the times when they smuggled coffee and commodities from Austria, even a computer and various other electronics. Ljubelj was a pretty popular border crossing since it was a tunnel and the customs officers couldn't see the ones on the other side. Imagine trying to smuggle something under the hood of your car and suddenly right before the checkpoint it starts smoking and you end up being stuck uphill, creating a massive line behind you. And yet there's still people that say how it was so much better back in the day. Obviously this is just one of the aspects, but still.
[QUOTE=DrAkcel;46147244]"Are those socks under your sandals? Get him out boys, execute by the morning!"[/QUOTE] A policy I can agree with
[QUOTE=Murkrow;46147847]Dad told me a lot of stories about the times when they smuggled coffee and commodities from Austria, even a computer and various other electronics. Ljubelj was a pretty popular border crossing since it was a tunnel and the customs officers couldn't see the ones on the other side. Imagine trying to smuggle something under the hood of your car and suddenly right before the checkpoint it starts smoking and you end up being stuck uphill, creating a massive line behind you. And yet there's still people that say how it was so much better back in the day. Obviously this is just one of the aspects, but still.[/QUOTE] My grandmother had a habit of lining the entire floor of the family Renault 4 with bags of coffee whenever we had to go to Trieste for something. They were in luck, too, because one time, when they considered stuffing the spare tire instead, the border guard decided to take it instead of searching the car. Of course, that wasn't nearly the worst thing that happened. My dad was nearly arrested trying to explain to a group of guardsmen that he can't terrorize the country with the computer motherboard sitting in the back seat.
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