Posted on 01/09/2013 8:09:31 PM PST by a fool in paradise
BEIJING—While other 72-year-old Chinese men spend their days practicing tai chi and playing mah-jongg, Liu Qianping is enjoying a twilight career modeling clothes. Women's clothes.
At a fall fashion shoot, the 5-foot-8 former rice farmer from central Hunan vamped for the camera in lacy green tights and white fur-lined pink dresses. Online and on TV, he has become a meme, with his image circulated by millions on Chinese social media sites and talk shows.
He owes his star turn to his granddaughter, Lu Ting, a clothier who struggled for months to find a model who could boost her online store without breaking the bank. "He's just so slender," Ms. Lu says of her 110-pound grandfather. She notes that he looks great in crimson dresses and credits him for more than quadrupling her sales in recent weeks.
...The waif of a man, who goes about in a three-piece suit and a bow-tie when he isn't clad in pink satin, is among a cadre of Chinese seniors who are all too familiar with cultural upheaval. Their lives have been marked by unimaginable change—from surviving famine to the advent of fast food. Along the way, many have adopted a devil-may-care approach that flies in the face of stereotypes about conservative Asian elders...
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Rutt-Roh! ROFLOL!!!
you got to be kidding me... a 72 year man modelling women’s clothes....
I love the internet.
He can keep ‘It’.
Is that a photo from their vacation in South Africa where Winnie The Mandela herself was a part of the welcoming committee?
The Chinamen will beat us in imagination, creativity and tolerance. But then, that’s not hard to do - an upper class highly educated onetime terrorist named Bill Ayers beat us all by placing an unknown half-witted unsympathetic Communist in the White House.
bleh
Hmmm? You don’t feel like you and your life are better after you get off the interwebs?
“You don’t feel like you and your life are better after you get off the interwebs?”
I think I’ve wasted those 10secs in reading an article about a 72 year old model that I can never get back.
The title should have served as its own warning label...
“The title should have served as its own warning label...”
I blame myself...
I have issues with my mouse... don’t say it.
I won't...
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