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Wednesday, January 29, 2020

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Vietnamese women celebrating Tet on 1-25-20--Luang Prabang









[Vietnamese women celebrating Tet on 1-25-20]



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3 comments:

eahilf said...

Zero obesity -- nice to see.

Astra Worthington said...

Those are beautiful dresses, what are they called? They’re so modest and flattering and pretty.

Linh Dinh said...

Hi Astra,

It's called an ao dai, which literally means "long shirt." When I was a kid, it common to see women on the streets wearing an ao dai, but now, about the only ones to have it on are highschool girls, and they wear a simple white ao dai, like here

And here's a little girl with a red ao dai at a Saigon shopping mall.

The women in the photo have slightly unusual ao dais, so I said to a woman in their party, "The ao dais are different over here [in Laos]."

She replied, "They're modern ao dais!"


Linh