Thursday, September 6, 2018

VN 29: Everything for Sale (Make Your Own Shade)

If you can't transport it, you can't sell it, even when your place on the street or sidewalk is going to have to compete with whatever skyscraper is being built.

And it is important, of you are a woman, that your skin be as white as possible. In any shop there are shelves of skin whiteners. (I believe they are primarily Korean brands, but I could be wrong.) This is not for medical reasons but for vanity: if you are a woman, lighter is better. No sunscreen but a non-la (conical hat), long sleeves and gloves worthy of the opera. Sandals but also socks. 

And yes, the face mask, now helpful because of pollution, but originally to protect from the sun. 

No, no sunscreen, or, as a friend characterized it with some disdain, "chemicals".

And, truth be told, sunscreen does melt off after about fifteen minutes in the tropical sun and heat.

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