Tuesday, June 17, 2008

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.