PM urges Thais to wear period costumes for outings

[PEE TEE]

Just Crazy as norm .

[cookieqw]

so why did he not wear these clothes when he met Trump ???

[mok199]

Amusing Thailand....

[lvr181]

7 hours ago, rkidlad said:

Ah, nationalism. 

Maybe, but I am thinking reinforcing "feudalism" (for the benefit of the elite). 

[JAG]

6 hours ago, geriatrickid said:

Traditional clothing of the poor consisted of a low quality sarong type outfit.

Does he expect that 50% of the population go back to bare feet and a sarong?

By the time he has finished with the economy, that is probably all that they will be able to afford!

[atyclb]

7 hours ago, colinneil said:

The la-la land kid strikes again.

So he wants people wearing period costume, does not mean all the fit women going topless, like they used to do.

 

 

problem is nowadays given the rampant obesity, the women going topless would be a horror.

[ratcatcher]

6 hours ago, Denim said:

A hundred years from now many Thai ladies will look back nostalgically to the tiny cut off jeans so popular in Thailands these days. 

 

Your dentist is very attractive I must say.

[lvr181]

1 hour ago, GLewis said:

The dumber the better they do not make problems.  A bit of simmering resentment over the last few months. Lets cover it up with going back to the past.. Such a glorious time for Thailand.  Oh and..... "We have never been conquered by any country, we are the only one in Asia".  Also the one going backwards the fastest..

I think the 'claim" was that Thailand (not Siam) had never been conquered. But they just gave in to what the Japanese wanted during the Second World War (didn't wait to be conquered).

 

Fortunately some Thais decided to fight back.

[Grouse]

My wife's period costume is pyjamas and dressing gown

[ratcatcher]

1 hour ago, Stoker58 said:

Getting rid of the internal combustion engine and going back to buffalo carts would save 60 lives every day. 

That's good news to me, I just bought one of those for the wife. Of course, she thinks I'm going to pull it.

[JOC]

Forget the political clowns in the OP......

And enjoy some beauty

They really look beautiful in their traditional dresses......!!

[ratcatcher]

4 hours ago, Juan B Tong said:

Most do already.  

Most of the serf class anyway.

Somchai don't serf!

[SABloke]

8 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

We should preserve this Thai tradition [wearing period costume] as a national treasure for the next generation,” Prayut said.

If it's a "Thai tradition" to wear period costumes, then what did they wear when these period costumes were contemporary clothes.  And since most Thai people today wear skirts, dresses, pants and shirts, the period costume of the future would be jeans and a T-shirt. 

[jenny2017]

2 hours ago, Grumpy Duck said:

Why don’t they have a slobbering emote?

oh god. She needs to sit on my Santa Claus's lap to understand the physical attachment issue. 

 

2 hours ago, Colabamumbai said:

Shis..Was hoping you wouldn't tell

 

My mate, I apologize for my dishonest post. Perhaps I had one glass too much. But I vaguely remember that we've made a gentleman agreement. Forgive me please, and I'll send you even more customers to your place. 

 

   P.S. for those who don't know Cola, he's a decent guy/ 

 

 

Edited March 17, 2018 by jenny2017

[jenny2017]

6 hours ago, Ossy said:

I like the way you've got the light to fall across your good lady's chest . . . just perfect!

I wouldn't mind to show her the way.

Edited March 17, 2018 by jenny2017

[Jonmarleesco]

What, to look like the bunch of bananas in the picture? I think the Thai public might pass. 

[connda]

9 hours ago, YetAnother said:

we have found out during the past 4 years that P wants to take us back, we just didn't realize how far back

Probably right back to the feudal era where most Thais were subservient to their masters.  To make it more realistic they should have a gaggle of the lower class cowing and scraping at their feet and wearing the plain clothing of the slave-class. 

Edited March 17, 2018 by connda

[PETERTHEEATER]

As a man I don't have periods and my wife is menopausal. Can I get a government subsidy to hire a young Thai girl to provide us with period costumes?

[lensta]

The only one that seems to have any self respect is the guy in the 2nd row saying

"please don't take a photo, please don't take a photo" On a side note, Watch man

is a really ugly toad, isn't he? Seems like nothing will improve the way he looks.

[jethro69]

13 hours ago, jonclark said:

I hear he  wants to ban cars also and have us all riding buffalos

Can just hope they ride their buffalos better than their cars ?

 

 

 

[bendejo]

About ten years ago or so Laos had rules like this.  There was some kind of international summit in Vientiane and people were instructed to wear traditional garb.

 

 

[lamyai3]

13 hours ago, Somtamnication said:

Ok. I will take out my 1700s period mankini with a Blackadder style middle lump.

I'm hoping the minister of bling doesn't start wearing his bejewelled codpiece...

[inThailand]

Isn't birthday suits and the back stroke the national outfit and sport?

[Jingjock]

Oh my gosh, must rush out and get me a King Henry the 8th suit to join the diddy men

[metisdead]

Troll posts and the replies have been removed. 

[mok199]

''oh my my, oh hell yes you got to put on your party dress''..the late so so so great Tom Petty...period.

Edited March 18, 2018 by mok199
speliing

[Aj Mick]

Wanting to go back to a past that never was.

[lordblackader]

Phibun will be turning in his grave. 

[Sydebolle]

May I suggest to the leaders of this wonderful country to go back in time a few hundred thousand years more; we then would not have to move downtown to the non-existing watering holes of Pattaya's walking street or Bangkok's Patpong to see the beauties of the land in their natural birth outfits. 

But yes, now after the wristwatch case is fizzling away, the Red Bull dick dropped off the red alert list of interpol (as per some statements), the black leopard must have cooked their own tails in a soup and the submarines are ordered, we can go back in time to enjoy ourselves .......... 

[DefaultName]

About 100 years ago, traditional dress had the norks out (or so I've read, I wasn't actually there).  Bring that back please, would save me a fortune in gogos.