Compared to North America, where many office workers look more like they’re off to a home improvement store, Koreans in downtown Seoul were very fashionable. Men wear suits and ties, nice belts and shined shoes. Refreshing to see, and we were certainly motivated to up our sartorial game a notch. The women – all tiny and well-coiffed – were very couture. Even the children wore coordinated outfits. Bangkok is a different story. Folks are either conservative dressers or outlandish and ‘out there’. Aside from skin colour, a lot of the tourists stood out due to their clothing – boring footwear, no accessories, wrinkly (wrinkle-free) shirts, zipper pants (who thought they were a good idea for anyone but archaeologists) and cargo shorts of many pockets.…

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