[travel] Vietnam fashions

[mattbell]

According to a fellow traveler who grew up in Vietnam, being somewhat fat was the fashion ideal for women even in the big cities as of 20 years ago. Now the fashion for women is to be as thin as possible. It's interesting... the US went through this transition a little under 100 years ago once the majority of people could purchase enough food to overeat. Basically, fatness used to be an (albeit unreliable) indicator of status as it implied wealth.

Weight aside, the prevailing Vietnamese city fashion involves wearing a lot of blingy ugly poor imitation designer clothing. Ick.