Sinh wearing campaign kicked off in Chaiyaphum
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In a bid to revive a traditional Thai lifestyle, the northeastern province of Chaiyaphum instructed all schoolgirls to wear "sinh," a long tube skirt, and to refrain from wearing short skirts or pants on Buddhist holy days, starting from January 27.
“This will be the province’s first such campaign since its establishment 193 years ago,” said deputy provincial governor Napa Sakuntanak during the campaign launch yesterday. All related parties would sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for this campaign on January 27, when the whole city would wear Thai traditional clothing and attend a parade around the city in the morning, she said. This initiative would let neighbouring countries that will soon enter the Asean Economic Community (AEC) along with Thailand know that Chaiyaphum is the city of deep-rooted Thai culture, she added.
