Posted on 05/02/2015 7:07:23 PM PDT by Gamecock
Attire for women in North Korea is getting flashier thanks to First Lady Ri Sol Ju’s knack for bold and stylish clothing, Daily NK has learned. Ri’s noticeable presence in the public eye has presumably been reason behind the state’s decidedly relaxed attitude toward rapidly shifting fashion trends among women, previously stringently regulated for their reflection of “capitalist trends.”
Party-published Rodong Sinmun reported on April 14th that leader Kim Jong Eun was accompanied by the First Lady to the Mangyondae Prize Sports Games at Kim Il Sung Stadium, where, unlike last year, she was spotted wearing a dark green jacket and a skirt with her hair down.
“North Koreans have been referring to Ri Sol Ju’s attire as modern and unprecedented in style,” a source in Yangkang Province told Daily NK on Monday. “A lot of fashion shows around the country have been promoting more modern looks, seemingly following trends started by the Marshal’s wife.”
In the past, she added, business suits had no visible waistline, and skirts used to fall well below the knees; these days, however, waistlines lean toward a much slimmer fit and skirts hover just above the knees. “Before now, people would not have even been able to think of wearing a shorter skirt or a lower neckline, but maybe because of the First Lady’s eye-catching outfits more people are making conscious adjustments to their sense of style,” she explained, adding that accessories such as necklaces and earrings are an increasingly popular trend.
Notably, in footage recently released by Chosun Central News Agency [KCTV], a number of residents from North Hamkyung Province’s Hoeryong City appeared sporting stylish earrings and necklaces. This look drew a great deal of attention due to the glitz and glam it indicates over the drab, muted fashion representative of most ordinary workers in North Korea.
According to the source, traveling vendors who run operations between Hyesan and Pyongyang have said that scores of customers are requesting necklaces, earrings, and rings from South Korea. Surprisingly, demand for these goods is not unique to younger women—older housewives are equally eager to glam up their look a bit.
She surmised that the First Lady’s proclivity for fashionable attire has brought significant changes to the face of North Korean society, noting that she has not witnessed a state crackdown on clothing preferences among residents for at least two or three years. “Some say that no one has actually worn anything that surpasses the glitzy nature of what comrade Ri Sol Ju has worn, so they can't really get into trouble," she pointed out.
*The content of this article was broadcast to the North Korean people via Unification Media Group.
It was not that long ago that the state was enforcing controls on hair styles and stuff, very strictly
YEAH! LEMME SEE THAT COMMIE TRAMP STAMP!
Yeah Baby!
I don’t know if there’s anything to read into this. Doubt there will be a renaissance. But I also never believed USSR could fall, so what do I know.
There was only one man who had the vision to see that. He was mocked, laughed at, Carl Sagan did a video where he made fun of Star Wars program.
But a funny thing happened. He was right. RR. Our hero.
bump
Russian Generals said a big part of the fall was the realization that the could not keep up with Star Wars spending.
I wonder if that bothered @@#@#s like Carl Sagan, that they would rather have been right than see a horrible communist empire fall.
They thought and still think that communists are the good guys
All the while famine and malnutrition that has stunted the physical growth and mental development of the North Koreans for over 65 years continues to go on unchecked. What a country.
Because in their absurd minds, men aren’t born to strive and struggle to be more and have more. It is a natural instinct that scientists above all should understand, and is completely and utterly incompatible with communism.
Things are finally moving in the right direction.
Ask and ye shall receive.
Fighting!
That is one messed up individual.
Maybe they are taking a tip from their Communists comrades in Hollywierd and Washington DC — and have decided that unbridled sex will become “the opiate of the masses”
This pic raises the old question....
Who shiite and stuck a cigar in it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oRb9-mypxg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbH60wCO-Yw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHD5nd3QLTg
Twiggy with epicanthic folds?
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