Shirihoudai

Glad to see the hot pants fad is spreading around Asia.  Last October in Japan thats all I saw around Tokyo - girls in hot pants and fishnet stockings.  Damn that was HAWT!  Well, the fad spread to Thailand but it wasn’t the reaction I was expecting.  Come on people, it’s THAILAND!  The world of champion girly-boy-muay-thai-trannies!  And they are worried about a little cheek showing? 

Thai girl band berated for skimpy New Year outfits

BANGKOK (AFP) - A Thai girl band that took part in a government push for women to avoid skimpy outfits during Buddhist New Year was Thursday berated by the culture ministry for subsequently stripping off.

Girly Berry, a four-piece outfit known for hits such as “Shake It” and “I Like Ugly Guys,” slipped into traditional Thai dress as part of a campaign ahead of Thailand’s New Year, known as Songkran, which ended Wednesday.

Days later, however, they were back on stage in buttock-skimming hot-pants and tank-tops for a performance on Bangkok’s Khao San Road, the centre of the capital’s raucous water fights that mark the new Buddhist year.

“We campaigned to promote proper dressing, including Thai-style dress, but they appeared in very little clothing on the Songkran festival,” said Chaweerat Kasetsoontorn, deputy permanent secretary at the culture ministry.

“I wonder if they might have forgotten that they were ambassadors for the campaign,” she told AFP.

The Bangkok Post newspaper reported Thursday that Anusorn Wongwan, the culture minister, had threatened to blacklist Girly Berry from future government campaigns.

Despite the government’s best efforts to convince women to cover up for Songkran, teenage girls strutted through the water war on Khao San Road last weekend in skimpy white shorts decorated with Playboy bunnies.

No need for pictures since the one in the original story doesn’t do anyone justice.

[EDIT] At the request of my boss, here is how they do it in Japan:

Photo via my original starbucks rant.