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Bike Fashion
Very interesting story today on Thanh Nien News today. This crazy ass kitschy fashion invading Hanoi, youths decorating their bikes :
Teens have beautified small two-wheelers with glitter and plastic flowers, giant silk butterflies and teddy bears, Christmas tinsel and paper parasols and, yes, feather boas, in an anything-goes creative arms race.
Youngsters have rigged blinking lights, MP3 players and batteries to the frames to blast techno and hip-hop down previously tranquil tree-lined streets, earning them both amused smiles and reproachful looks from their elders.
See the story here.
Anyone up in Hanoi witnessed any of this?! Love to see some more pictures. I’ll have my eyes peeled for the first fashion victim down here in HCM!
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I am surprised they are more creative and gutsy in Hanoi than in HCMC.
I was up in Hanoi about a month ago and saw the monstrosity that is the boa bike gangs. Where did the first person get feather boas in VN though?! That’s what I want to know.
This is crazy interesting. Would be a hoot to see in person. Thanks.
haha…=))