PM ends up on global catwalk
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Unlike her Australian counterpart Julia Gillard, our Prime Minister hasn't yet been chased around by an angry mob, although Thais are sometimes a little rough on her fashion sense.
That’s just crazy, says Britain’s Daily Mail.
In an article headlined “‘Coating’ from the Thai PM’s stylebook: Chic Yingluck Shinawatra touches down in Delhi”, the newspaper praises her wardrobe. In India, Yingluck wore a black pantsuit that the reporter called professional yet stylish.
“Her love of blazers is quite well known,” it said. “From ruffled and metallic to kimono style or embroidered, Yingluck loves to mix it up.”
As for her hair, the article says it’s the subject of keen interest at home, so much so that Thai-based British historian Chris Baker wrote about it during her election campaign.
But the story sort of fizzles out toward the end with Yingluck’s daft promise to “use my femininity to work fully for our country” and a claim that “many” people say she’s “suai, ruai, keng” (pretty, rich and smart). Evidently we think she’s right up there with Michelle Obama and Carla Bruni.
Let’s see what Yingluck wears to the fashion show that Thailand’s putting on for the business tycoons in Davos, Switzerland.
A good hiding
“I survived the Great Flood of Twenty-aught-eleven!” you’ll tell your under-impressed grandkids, and they’ll be even less impressed when Siratcha “Min” Patcharasopachai tells them it wasn’t all that bad.
Well, okay, it was, but the thing is that Min owns the Momoko Bag & Shoe Spa, and business has been terrific since the crisis because so many expensive brand-name handbags got damaged. Min nurses them back to health.
Women (and, yes, some guys) bring their purses in, smelly, mildewed, still soggy, gnawed by rats, savaged by mamba snakes and more. You’d think that at least the alligator-skin bags would have come through the disaster in better shape.
You know what they say about bags that are reincarnated at Momoko? It’s their destiny to “carry on”.
