Ben Mathis-Lilley has a
Slate article about the latest fad in China:
The New York Times reports on a new trend in China: people wearing hairpins that look like bean sprouts, cherries, flowers, and other plants.
When the trend started a few months ago, it was usually just a humble bean sprout clipped to the hair and erect like a little green flagpole. But, as the fad ramped up, especially during the current National Day holiday week when Beijing fills with visitors, it has escalated and diversified to include a riot of plastic vegetation. Now heads are bristling with clover, sunflowers, chrysanthemums, lavender, mushrooms, chilies, cherries, gourds, and pine trees.
The photos above are from Beijing, though the Times says some believe the fad started in the city of Chengdu.
This is an outstanding trend and the United States needs to get on board. Or should I say on gourd? Hahaha. Ha ha. Hahahahahaha.
Rico says hair vegetables
could catch on here... (But
Mathis-Lilley seems to be losing it over this one...)
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