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Fish scale shirt latest cool summer wear

(China Daily)
Updated: 2008-07-10 11:34

Yao Xianmin, 71, a resident of Nan'an district, Chongqing municipality, keeps cool these hot summer days in a fish scale-festooned shirt.

The idea of finding a use for fish scales came to Yao some 30 years ago, after his son caught a fish with thumb-nail-sized scales. He decided to try the idea out at the beginning of 2007, when he moved into his son's urban apartment. It took Yao 15 months to attach 14,000 fish scales to one of his shirts, but the cool comfort it provides in the oppressive urban summer heat, he believes, makes it well worth the effort.

(Chongqing Evening News)