วันเสาร์ที่ 5 กรกฎาคม พ.ศ. 2551

Queen Sirikit Revives Traditional Wear

Our beautiful Queen was responsible for setting the trend in Thailand's fashion scene. If it weren't for the Queen, the Thai national costume would not have enjoyed the prestige it does today.


When Queen Sirikit was preparing to accompany H.M. the King on a six-month long visit to 14 countries in merica and Europe in 1960, Thailand had no national costume, so to say. True we did have the traditional wear of the various periods, but no one had come up with any definition of formal attire. So the question which naturally came up was, what should the wardrobe of the Thai queen consist of? What should she wear and when ?


The nightmares of the World War years and the rapid changes that took place in the meantime still haunted Thai society to a great extent. Searching for a formal dress style, H.M. The Queen made a through study of oldphotographs and paintings of royal ladies. The outcome of the task was that no fixed style ever existed.


At one the queen entrusted her close relative and aide, Thanpuying Maneerat Bunnag, to round up the country's leading historians, scholars and designers. They were to agree upon a series of fixed traditional styles that would be practical and attractive. Thus, through H.M. The Queen's inspiration, the numerous defined styles of Thai Traditional wear came into being, complete with instructions for their proper use. The basis for all the designs were
Thai silk and the ankle-length wrap or pasin.

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