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Sector7G
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 Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2015 3:53 pm Post subject: A Gorgeous Journey Through '100 Years Of Korean Beauty' |
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Watch '100 Years Of Korean Beauty' Unfold In One Minute
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/17/100-years-of-korean-beauty_n_6887726.html
The one-minute episode looks at Korean beauty trends over the past 100 years. Previous topics included African American beauty and Iranian makeup and hair trends.
The video shows Korean beauty transformations between the 1910s and 1940s on model Tiffany Lee, who is a celebrity hair and makeup artist. Starting in the 1950s, the video splits into two screens to reflect the division into North Korea and South Korea. As the transformations continue into the second half of the 20th century, the South Korean styles appear more western while North Korean hair and makeup remains conservative. |
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thrylos
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| Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2015 4:16 pm Post subject: |
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The 60's and 70's South look is hot, but I doubt it was popular in Korea itself-- looks like a generic 'western' go-go/hippy look. (Probably the same for the earlier decades, too)
80-90's NK look is definitely hotter than the South's.
00-10, SK. |
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jvalmer
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edwardcatflap
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| Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2015 7:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Don't they have a native speaker who can edit that newspaper? English of that standard doesn't look great on a university website. |
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thrylos
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| Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2015 2:47 pm Post subject: |
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Thx for that, nice.
I wonder how popular east of City hall and south of the river the looks were...I'm thinking places like Daejeon, Daegu, Kwangju, etc They're barely in the 21st century today!  (Busan excepted) |
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Smithington
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| Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2015 3:55 pm Post subject: |
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Hardly "gorgeous". They couldn't have found a better looking Korean woman? Her bone structure is too prominent. And do they really believe that millions of Korean peasants in decades past were dolling themselves up like that? Really? To work in the fields and factories? To go to a soju tent? Even the first 'look' was ridiculous. Besides the aristocracy, who did their hair like that? Most of the looks after that are just Western styles on a Korean woman. The only Korean touch I can see is the consistent over-use of make-up.
Fail. |
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Sector7G
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| Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2015 4:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Smithington wrote: |
Hardly "gorgeous". They couldn't have found a better looking Korean woman? Her bone structure is too prominent. And do they really believe that millions of Korean peasants in decades past were dolling themselves up like that? Really? To work in the fields and factories? To go to a soju tent? Even the first 'look' was ridiculous. Besides the aristocracy, who did their hair like that? Most of the looks after that are just Western styles on a Korean woman. The only Korean touch I can see is the consistent over-use of make-up.
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Lighten up, Smithington. No one was thinking about what the peasants were doing style-wise, which is pretty much on par with the West. And no one used the word "gorgeous", either, as you implied with the quotation marks - though I think she looks pretty good. |
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Smithington
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| Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2015 5:46 pm Post subject: |
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| The OP used the word "gorgeous" in the thread title. |
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Sector7G
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| Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2015 5:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Smithington wrote: |
| The OP used the word "gorgeous" in the thread title. |
D'oh!!!!!! Ok, I completely missed that, but it was actually written by the headline writer, not the OP.  Anyway, I still say lighten up. |
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Smithington
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| Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2015 8:07 pm Post subject: |
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If they are going to do a programme about anything from the past it needs to be researched. This video is historically inaccurate. The vast, vast majority of Koreans did not have their hair like that in the past. I get a feeling that this is just another attempt to make Korea, past and present, look "cool". "Yeah, Korea's hip. Koreans have always been hip and with it. Just check out this video of Korean fashion over the decades."
I strongly suspect Koreans or Gyopos were behind the video. |
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Smithington
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Steelrails
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| Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2015 1:19 am Post subject: |
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| Smithington wrote: |
If they are going to do a programme about anything from the past it needs to be researched. This video is historically inaccurate. The vast, vast majority of Koreans did not have their hair like that in the past. I get a feeling that this is just another attempt to make Korea, past and present, look "cool". "Yeah, Korea's hip. Koreans have always been hip and with it. Just check out this video of Korean fashion over the decades."
I strongly suspect Koreans or Gyopos were behind the video. |
Do you have any evidence that what they are saying is inaccurate? That Koreans had women who were rural farmers and did not follow style trends in the 1920s does not therefore infer that this was not what was "in style". Do you think rural women in Montana followed the same look as ladies in New York in 1920?
"1930s Fashion" would show you Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, not a dustbowl migrant woman. What was in style is not the same as what most people wore.
When people talk "Victorian Fashion", they're talking about how people in society looked and dressed, not what some scullery maid or tenement housewife wore. Same here.
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| I strongly suspect Koreans or Gyopos were behind the video. |
I strongly suspect that if some historian of fashion of non-Korean or Gyopo researched Seoul makeup and hair style trends they would have come to the same conclusion. But thanks for the bigoted assertion that because someone is Korean or gyopo, that that makes their opinions invalid.
Now, if you wanted to talk about "everyday style for the average person in Korea", you might have a fair point. |
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