No entrance fee for visitors wearing traditional clothing to historical sites

[evadgib]

I wonder if this offer will be extended to the English?

[longtom]

I'll pay the fee instead of wearing the 'officially sanctioned' Thai dress.

Also, the traditional Thai dress for the 99% is not the 'traditional clothing' of the Hi-Sos that is being peddled by the Thai ministries.  What is being forwarded as 'traditional dress' is an exercise in revisionist history.
 
This was the traditional Thai dress for the 'average' Thai citizen perhaps with the exception of the city dwellers who were not the majority population in the country prior to 1942 when Western dress was mandated and a country-wide dress code was enforced:



 

Shocking - they were not wearing socks!

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[Artisi]

On 04/04/2018 at 5:35 PM, connda said:

I'll pay the fee instead of wearing the 'officially sanctioned' Thai dress.

Also, the traditional Thai dress for the 99% is not the 'traditional clothing' of the Hi-Sos that is being peddled by the Thai ministries.  What is being forwarded as 'traditional dress' is an exercise in revisionist history.

 

This was the traditional Thai dress for the 'average' Thai citizen perhaps with the exception of the city dwellers who were not the majority population in the country prior to 1942 when Western dress was mandated and a country-wide dress code was enforced:



 

2nd from the left should be mandated for all females 16 - 40 with dispensation above 40 for those deemed suitable. 

[Artisi]

4 minutes ago, evadgib said:

I wonder if this offer will be extended to the English?

Only if your name is Morris. 

[Artisi]

8 minutes ago, EricTh said:

I'm not sure about this but from what I read these aren't really Tai costumes but more like Khmer costumes.

 

Click on link below.

 

http://eastasiaorigin.blogspot.com/2017/06/ethnic-origin-of-thai.html

 

Can't be true, Thailand is the hub of all, always was, always will be 

[watcharacters]

On 4/4/2018 at 6:58 AM, Lungstib said:

Sometimes you just have to shake your head and wonder who thinks up all this BS. No discount for students or retired citizens, only for the well off who can afford to purchase a set of clothes as seen on current TV dramas to be worn a couple of times.

 

 

I honestly don't need to think a lot about who dreams up the absurdity.   

 

I figure it's fairly clear.

 

 

[tomta]

3 minutes ago, watcharacters said:

I honestly don't need to think a lot about who dreams up the absurdity.   

 

I figure it's fairly clear

The tone is set by one person and the sycophants compete to please 

[watcharacters]

Just now, tomta said:

The tone is set by one person and the sycophants compete to please 

 

 

The worker bees also must surely participate.

 

 

[bluesofa]

16 minutes ago, Artisi said:

Only if your name is Morris. 

Or Marina.

[overherebc]

7 minutes ago, tomta said:

The tone is set by one person and the sycophants compete to please 

I thought a sycophant was a killer pachyderm. ?

[EricTh]

2 hours ago, Artisi said:

Can't be true, Thailand is the hub of all, always was, always will be 

please enlighten me.

 

http://thechef.info/khmer-wedding-dresses/khmer-wedding-outfits-khmer-wedding-dresses/

 

 

 

Edited April 9, 2018 by EricTh

[Damrongsak]

On 4/3/2018 at 8:57 PM, kannot said:

..... expensive borrowed  watches

[Artisi]

1 hour ago, EricTh said:

please enlighten me.

 

http://thechef.info/khmer-wedding-dresses/khmer-wedding-outfits-khmer-wedding-dresses/

 

 

 

Enlighten you: seems you missed the subtlety of the Thai belief that it's the centre of the world.