By GI Korea on May 23rd, 2010 at 1:02 pm

Picture of the Day: North Korean Women’s Fashion

» by GI Korea in: North Korea

NK Econ Watch has a video posted that discusses North Korean fashion choices for women.

Tags: fashion, North Korea

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Liz
9:32 am on May 23rd, 2010 1
Wonder how many months a DPRK person would have to work to afford one of those outifts?
Teadrinker
10:03 am on May 23rd, 2010 2
Those clothes are probably made of vinalon, which means anyone wearing those clothes probably feels like they've been wrapped in plastic tarp (literally and figuratively so).
Nathan
12:01 pm on May 23rd, 2010 3
Boy, if that doesn't get your motor going, surely there's something wrong with you…
Tom Langley
12:58 pm on May 23rd, 2010 4
Teadrinker had an interesting comment about the clothes were probably made of vinalon which is certainly correct. The vinalon story is interesting & very instructive about the NK regime. Vinalon was developed in Oct 1939 by Dr Lee Seung-Ki(and others) who later defected to NK. It was developed two years after the development of nylon. The raw materials of vinalon are limestone & anthracite coal which are both found in abundance in NK. Vinalon is heat & chemical resistant but is durable & stiff, difficult to dye, & very uncomfortable to wear as Teadrinker wrote. Another famous NK scientist, Dr Yeo Kyung Koo doubted the practicality of focusing on vinalon & argued that a nylon factory should be built. He got in a P'ing contest with Kim Il-Sung, guess who won? Dr Yeo committed suicide in 1977. NK considers vinalon a representative of juche even though the fact is no one outside of NK wants to buy vinalon. The world will be better off when this regime implodes.
Knickerbocker
10:49 pm on May 23rd, 2010 5
"Svimvear. Eveningvear. Beachvear….."

Here's the original commercial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CaMUfxVJVQ
Tom Langley
2:55 am on May 24th, 2010 6
LOL!
Dana
3:00 am on May 24th, 2010 7
N. Korea is stuck where China was back in the 50s and 60s.