Fashion Shmashion

There are a couple of trends here that are a bit surprising. The first is the anklet stocking under sandals. I'm guessing this is a practicality due to the heat, maybe, but it looks pretty ridiculous. I've seen both men and women rocking black, ankle high, stockings
(like a high ped) under tevas, platforms, and strappy sandals. Its not their best work.

The second relates to toddlers. Diapers aren't really used around here and kids are held aloft by their parents to do biz in public. In order to avoid messes, I suppose, the child clothing designers have devised a workaround. Kids clothes just don't have butt fabric. Sort of, like, chaps for the toddler set. Its a little disconcerting at first but I suppose ultimately good for the environment. I'm hopeful that in winter the trap door is closed, for the sake of the kids.

Lastly, English slogan T-shirts. I would seriously love to meet the graphic artists/ad wiz who decides chooses disjointed English words to plaster across the chests of teenagers here. The nonsense phrases beg the questions - do these kids know what their shirts say? Do they care? Are the words just abstract designs to look at, or do they think they say something? Here is a sampling of such shirts from the last 2 days. Yesterday we hit up the Olympic Park, which was ripe with 'em.

I Heart Simple Keep On Going
IF Marine Life
Bullet Life Paris Woman
The Blue Taxiway
Sing Rock Animal Van
Travel Fox 1985
Buckarod Love Rock [not buckaroo, but buckarod]
Sassy Girl Denim 55
Crazylips [repeated all over the shirt in different fonts]
Magic Jump Slowly Original
University S of W Fashionistas
Poo since 1968
Expectation Value
Strangest Roommates Same Difference
Hard Undertaking

I'm sort of inclined to keep recording these, if only for my own amusement. Perhaps I'll have another installment of T-shirt madness after we travel to a few more towns in China.