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« Reply #1 on: May 13, 2012, 01:58:30 PM »
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« Reply #2 on: May 13, 2012, 04:32:09 PM »
should title be 'Girls and umbrellas - in China'  th_ah
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« Reply #3 on: May 13, 2012, 07:25:37 PM »
Summer must be back!! th_ag th_ag
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« Reply #4 on: May 13, 2012, 08:37:51 PM »
Brilliant! Thanks XWar! th_bf
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« Reply #5 on: May 13, 2012, 09:11:36 PM »

 th_bj Thank you for sharing th_ag
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« Reply #6 on: May 13, 2012, 10:02:40 PM »
Thanks xwarrior! th_bf I thought it was just something that the Asian folk did here in Oz to stop skin cancer. Thank goodness the guys don't go on with all this. th_bi  James Packer is working on plans to encourage the middle class Asians to come and gamble holiday in the Land Down Under. Can you imagine the number of umbrella stands that they will have to provide in the Casinos???  th_ah th_ah th_ah
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« Reply #7 on: May 14, 2012, 01:15:13 AM »
I didn't see a single umbrella lol
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« Reply #8 on: May 14, 2012, 02:46:46 AM »
Quote from: Granny Mae on May 13, 2012, 10:02:40 PM
Thanks xwarrior! th_bf I thought it was just something that the Asian folk did here in Oz to stop skin cancer. Thank goodness the guys don't go on with all this. th_bi  James Packer is working on plans to encourage the middle class Asians to come and gamble holiday in the Land Down Under. Can you imagine the number of umbrella stands that they will have to provide in the Casinos???  th_ah th_ah th_ah
They want to be whiter. Dark skin is a sign of the lower class(farmers/laborers etc.) here in China. There are a multitude of beauty products, for example, to help maintain whiter skin as well.

Although a lost idea to many westerners, the umbrella's original intent was in fact as a sun shade as well.
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« Reply #9 on: May 14, 2012, 09:31:50 PM »
Isn't it sad that human beings are so shallow! th_al
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« Reply #10 on: May 17, 2012, 12:03:27 AM »
BrandeX is spot on. Chinese umbrellas are more parasols  (literally) than rain gear.
Light skin is still tremendously important and cultivated among the Chinese...it long distinguished the nobility from the peasantry. The tanning many Westerners seek is totally unthinkable in China.

The Chinese try to not go out at all when it's actually raining...
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« Reply #11 on: May 17, 2012, 01:49:24 AM »
I LOVE Chinese umbrella girls (and I'm a girl)  th_ak
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« Reply #12 on: May 25, 2012, 02:57:50 AM »
Every time I see your pics, xwarrior, it puts a smile one my face. You are the man.

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