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And the bride wore... very little indeed
(telegraph.co.uk)
Updated: 2006-03-14 11:37

Chinese brides traditionally married in red, the colour of happiness. Then white weddings were introduced from the West, with women posing in ivory silk, supported by grooms in black tie.

The latest fad, though, is simpler - the naked wedding photo - and it has not gone down well with brides' parents.

"Some photo studios are going too far," said one angry mother. "They allow young women to have their photos taken in bikinis or with nothing on at all. I hope the authorities will do something."

According to a newspaper report, the mother discovered that her daughter had two sets of photographs taken - one in traditional attire for relatives, and one a more personal statement of modernity. Such exhibitionism is a surprisingly common feature of modern Chinese life.

Weddings are the latest symptom. A marriage certificate takes 10 minutes and costs 70p, leading to the popular "quicky wedding". But marriage spreads costing, in some cases, hundreds of thousands of pounds are featured in magazines.

Like the naked wedding photographs, they are described with a mixture of prurience and disapproval, a reflection of the ambivalence many feel towards changes in traditional values.

The internet has been an attractive venue for the young's competing desires for privacy and celebrity. "Naked chatting" - where people chat online while posing naked for a web-camera is a related and popular past-time, while women have become famous by posing provocatively for their "blogs".

China Radio's website has warned that "private" digital images can be passed on by unscrupulous photo studios. It illustrated the article with a picture of Angel, a bride wearing nothing but a veil, stockings and a strategically placed bunch of pink roses.

Angel said: "If we can record how nice we look when we are young by taking photos, why shouldn't we? People grow older, fatter and uglier."


 



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