On 1 Sep 2003 04:54:35 -0700, frisbieinstein@yahoo.com (Patrick
Powers) wrote:
>Pan wrote in message news:...
>
>>
>> One thing that was immediately apparent to me on my return to New York
>> is that women here typically wear outfits that show their figure,
>> whereas most Malaysian women wear outfits that, though often
>> beautiful, do not show their figure such that you can see the size and
>> shape of their breasts, for example. That's particularly true of
>> Muslim women, of course, and I did see some Chinese Malaysians wearing
>> miniskirts - but not on the East Coast.
>>
>
>Right, Western clothes tend to display the body, Malay Muslim clothes
>the face.
The face and the clothes themselves.
> I saw a Japanese tourist here in a kimono with obi, and I
>would say that this was a display of the clothes themselves.
I can picture that.
Michael
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