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| Subject: Chinese slave pen: Shanghai Bans Wearing Pajamas in Public Sat Feb 06, 2010 11:08 pm | |
| Shanghai wants to look its best when it hosts the 2010 World Expo in a few months, so it's spreading the word to residents: Pajamas are for inside the house. Concerned about the popular habit of wearing boldly colored PJs on city streets, officials have launched a public campaign to discourage the practice. Boing Boing notes that the trend has been immortalized on Flickr and in National Geographic.
The fashion statement began "as a matter of practicality because people lived in cramped conditions with no clear line between public space and private place," a Chinese sociologist tells the South China Morning Post.
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/05/shanghais-crackdown.html |
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