This graceful lady looked like a butterfly in her lovely dress. The Ao Dai is the traditional Vietnamese ladies fancy garment. But this one is brighter than most I have seen.
Vietnamese 2017 Tet (Lunar New Year) Celebration - San Diego, CA
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5th February 2017, 01:20 AM #1
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5th February 2017, 01:25 AM #2
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Re: Lovely Lady in Beautiful Dress
Nicely captured.
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5th February 2017, 09:49 AM #3
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Cannot argue with that title, beautiful framed and captured.
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5th February 2017, 01:17 PM #4
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Nothing is disturbing in this picture, nice colors, the wind helps to give a nice movement of her dress.
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5th February 2017, 03:44 PM #5
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IMO, the Vietnamese Ao Dai is one of the most beautiful national costumes but, also one of the most difficult to wear. The wearer needs to be slim and to flow gracefully. Otherwise the entire look is spoiled...
When I was in Vietnam. mostly only city women wore Ao Dai dresses. I think it was probably a matter of economics because, even then these dresses were relatively expensive.
School girls traditionally wore white Ao Dais over black pantaloons. A group pf these delicate creatures looked like a flight of white butterflies...Last edited by rpcrowe; 8th February 2017 at 12:56 AM.
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8th February 2017, 01:20 AM #6
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Although these young ladies are not in typical Vietnamese costume, their pose is reminiscent of Vietnam...
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8th February 2017, 01:35 AM #7
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What year were you there Richard? I was there in '69-70 and remember the dress code very well. Great shots brought back memories.
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8th February 2017, 02:52 AM #8
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I arrived there in 1966 and spent a total of 26 months In-Country until I left the country for the last time in the beginning of 1972. I worked all over the country from Rach Gia on the Gulf of Thailand in the South to Dong Ha in the North and just about everywhere from the coast into Cambodia East to West.
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8th February 2017, 05:10 PM #9
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Re: Lovely Lady in Beautiful Dress
Both nice images , first one has lovely colors
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8th February 2017, 05:42 PM #10
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Here is a gentleman I met at the Tet celebration. He had been an ARVN (Army of Vietnam) infantry officer in the Four Corps area (in the Southern portion of Vietnam, including the Mekong Delta). Small world, we knew a mutual friend who was a Vietnamese Naval Officer and who commanded a flotilla of River Assault Craft
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