Picture of the Day: Chinese Dancers In Seoul

Tags: China, dancers

• Lemmy
  6:19 am on June 7th, 2010 1

  Antrhopology Major concentrating in Chinese culture states the costumes have no culture value.

• Jeff
  6:46 am on June 7th, 2010 2

  Aztec inspired, made in China.

• Lemmy
  6:56 am on June 7th, 2010 3

  Some of the girls look like they have eaten too much General Tso's Chicken

• Sonagi
  7:01 am on June 7th, 2010 4

  Obviously some glitzy imitation of a minority tribal costume. I saw plenty of Chinese-minority-meets-Vegas-showgirl dances in China. My favorite was the troupe of tall, skinny Chinese women performing a Kazakh dance in tight, sleeveless silver dresses and tall hats. Step N Fetchit with Chinese characteristics.

• Burma Bob
  7:08 am on June 7th, 2010 5

  These are a mashup of several minority costumes, done Yunnan meets Vegas-style. A little bit of everything. And of course the girls are professional Han Chinese hoofers, vice minorities.

• bdiego
  8:25 am on June 7th, 2010 6

  These are traditional tour the world Chinese dance outfits.

• ChickenHead
  11:57 am on June 7th, 2010 7

  "Antrhopology Major concentrating in Chinese culture states the costumes have no culture value."

  I agree. They must be removed immediately and destroyed.

  They do look like Walt Disney vomited after drinking his own paint.

• Gerry
  12:03 pm on June 7th, 2010 8

  I lived (was stationed) in Taiwan for two years in the 70s, they look Taiwanese.

• JoeC
  1:20 pm on June 7th, 2010 9

  This page says they are from the Yunnan province.
  http://hanopolis.com/?articleNo=22693&story/E…

  The headdress looks like that worn by the some of the Dai ethnic girls on this page.
  http://news.chinaa2z.com/news/html/2009/20090202/…

  Probably the Huayao branch of Dai.
  http://traditions.cultural-china.com/en/115Tradit…

• Retired GI
  1:43 pm on June 7th, 2010 10

  No competition for the outfits or the girls in the DollHouse in AC.

• Teadrinker
  4:14 pm on June 7th, 2010 11

  "Does anyone know what type of Chinese outfits these are?"

  As an amateur ethnographer, I'd say those outfits are pure Beijing cabaret kitsch.

• Glans
  8:25 pm on June 7th, 2010 12

  For the sake of comparison, suppose it were an American dance troupe. What would an authentically American costume look like?

• JoeC
  8:48 pm on June 7th, 2010 13

  When I was a kid, our schools brought us to see authentic Hopi Indian dance performances in full costume. Does that count?

• ChickenHead
  11:10 pm on June 7th, 2010 14

  "What would an authentically American costume look like?"

  Safe For Work

  http://pic13.picturetrail.com/VOL489/4138106/9090…

  Boarderline NSFW

  http://www.dvorak.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/201…

• Retired GI
  11:26 pm on June 7th, 2010 15

  What type of authentic American?

  Irish, German, French, African, Indian, English, Chinese, Japanese, Viking, Neanderthal, cro magnon.

  Pick one or more groups that most closely discribes your group's beginning in American.

• Teadrinker
  12:19 am on June 8th, 2010 16

  #14,

  …and for the men's costumes:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9OO0S5w2k

• Glans
  10:38 am on June 8th, 2010 17

  So we Americans can wear pretty much any kind of costume we want. The Chinese can, too.

• Leon LaPorte
  11:27 am on June 8th, 2010 18

  I saw the same thing at Bugok Hawaii, years ago.

  http://www.bugokhawaii.co.kr/

• Frank
  11:29 am on June 8th, 2010 19

  It is a Chinese modernized version of a Hmong traditional costume. Google it. You can see many similarity.

• Leon LaPorte
  11:36 am on June 8th, 2010 20

  Frank, I wish I had of googled that, I really do. But alas, your advice was too late. Instead, I ended up with THIS.

• ChickenHead
  12:00 pm on June 8th, 2010 21

  Thanks Leon for something I can't un-see.

  Call Paul Watson and have that thing pushed back into the water.

• JoeC
  12:03 pm on June 8th, 2010 22

  I still think the costumes are derived from Huayao Dai. The headdress is almost spot on.

  This site has a series of pictures of the girls.
  http://www.photomekong.com/en/Photo_9074.aspx

• Glans
  2:17 pm on June 8th, 2010 23

  The hat is a mounting bracket for a satellite dish.
  http://www.photomekong.com/en/Photo_9096.aspx

• 88mm
  11:16 pm on June 11th, 2010 24

  It only matters where they go for drinks afterwards. Then you can ask them all about their costumes and pretend to care while you try to close the deal!

 

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