Stocking Feet

Yesterday I spoke about how women here generally can’t dress themselves for shit.  I forgot to mention one other completely revolting aspect of Chinese women’s fashion.

It’s summer now, and with it women are beginning to wear skirts and shorts and capri pants, much like their western counterparts.  With these clothes they wear a variety of sandals and other strap-type shoes.  In the US women who wear something like this will either wear stockings or hose, or most likely just go with bare skin.  Not Chinese women.

You know those calf-high pantyhose-style stockings that your grandmother used to wear?  Well, they wear those, only they come up just past the ankles.  Imagine, if you will, a cute young Chinese girl in a sundress and sandals, with ankle-high pantyhose stockings on her feet.  It’s one of the most revolting things I’ve ever seen.  How ANYONE could look in the mirror and think that looked good is beyond me.  But, this is China, and you quickly get used to the fact that the Chinese do a whole lot of shit that makes absolutely no sense to us whatsoever.

I’m curious - don’t any of these girls ask you how Western women dress?

No, because I think that they think that this *is* how western women dress. Or, if not, it’s the “Chinese way” of dressing fashionable.  There’s probably an element of hypernationalism in there somewhere.  “The lao wei do not wear enough rabbit fur.  So rabbit fur is this season’s hot type of jacket and/or boot for ladies who want to dress western but express their Chinese identity.”

Makes me wonder what they think when they see American TV and movies.

Well, think of it like these “fashion nightmare” shows that women in the US watch.  You get women who just have no idea how to dress and look good doing it, and EVERY ONE OF THEM thinks they look great.  You know, when they go out in the skin-tight leopard-skin body suit with their gut hanging out, that sort of thing.

It’s probably much the same.  These broads look in the mirror and think, “I look *just* like Cameron Diaz!”

Except for the ankle stockings.

Do any of your coworkers know about this blog?  I’m sure these girls would recognize themselves being described as a “clown”....

No, and I plan on keeping it that way. 

Pictures would help us visualize.

It’s hot and you know it. We miss you stateside, Mr. Lee.
Mike Wilson