Wearing a brand-name overcoat, a pair of "Lee" jeans, and with avant-garde makeup, Yuzhoin, a Tibetan girl from the landlocked Yadong County in the southern part of Xigaze Prefecture looks no different to the fashion conscious girls who live in the coastal metropolis.
In an interview with Xinhua, Yuzhoin said that although YadongCounty was remote, small and surrounded by mountains, girls therenever give up their effort to follow fashion. Her present trip to Lhasa was for shopping only.
"Our fashion consciousness is the result of the recent years'local economic jump which resulted from central government'songoing west region development policy and preferential policy forethnic groups," she continued.
In fact, her parents' generation was too poor to get enoughclothes to keep warm, let alone choosing color and style ofclothes.
In addition, the most of the younger Tibetans have received modern education which helps form their own interpretation of beauty and fashion, she said.
(Xinhua News Agency January 14, 2002)
