tagelmusts are fashionable

according to wikipedia,
a tagelmust is an indigo dyed cotton garment with the appearance of both a veil and a turban. the cloth can be larger than 10m in length. other colours are now being used but indigo is saved for special occasions. the tuareg are an ethnic group who originally wore the tagelmust. intheir culture, tagelmusts are worn by adult males and are only taken off in the presence of close family.

the way a tagelmust is wrapped and folded is used to show different clans and regional origin. the darker the dye, the more wealthy the wearer.

now, tagelmusts are often worn by people going into the sahara desert, as it effectively helps protect the face from sun and sand. many tuareg men are afraid to wear the tagelmust due to civil unrest.

i was looking through my fashion folder on my computer and i found a magazine scan from a fashion mag. in the scan, there's two photos of models wearing tagelmusts. i thought it was funny because i had recently learned how to wrap a tagelmust and i took a photo of it. i thought i was being kind of innovative for taking a photo like that but apparently it's big in the fashion industry!


this is the magazine scan that i found.



this is the photo of myself that i took! i wrapped the tagelmust myself thanks to some youtube tutorials. it literally took me 12 seconds to do

i am so indie and cool

just kidding; i'm definitely not indie at all

i went out with one of my close friends for the last time because she's part of the german embassy and she's moving to india on tuesday. i'm going to miss her a lot. we went out to a nice little café downtown and had baked treats and cappuccinos, then we walked around the market.

i felt kind of cool cuz i was wearing a new t-shirt that i bought with a new pair of blue pants
(ignore my bad hair... my dad drove the car with the roof down and i pulled another all-nighter again)



then my friend and i went to an obscure used-book store and on the third floor, i found a korean GQ magazine and i bought it for $0.42!

that's a major steal because there's a foreign magazine shop that sells mags for $15 - $60

i didn't know that GQ is a magazine for guys... i guess i didn't notice that there wasn't any articles geared towards girls because i'm used to reading online fashion blogs about men's fashion. i really like male models!


this is the cover. lol tom cruise is on it but in the magazine, the article about him is only a page long + one page for a picture



james franco. i took this pic for tiffani because i know she really likes him



exclusive interview with DBSK! aka one of my fave boy bands



lol asian tourist stereotype.



glow in the dark louis vuitton shoes?! YES PLZ



good lord... i need this burger



this is an ad for a makeup kit for men... now we know why asians always have such nice skin!



that beard looks gross. you can only pull that look if you have thick facial hair but this guy's is scraggly and thin. in the original picture, it looks really photoshopped on!



YUM! i can't even begin to describe how absolutely decadent this guy is. i wish they would say the model's name so i could look up more photos of him.



changmin! my fave DBSK member. he is such a sweetheart and his smile makes me melt.



DBSK! they look so happy and cute! (but what's new haha)



cigar ad. i don't know anyone who smokes cigars and i don't think i've seen a cigar ad in a magazine before, except maybe a really old issue of national geographic or something



this cig ad was on really thick paper and it has silver in it and the cig cartons are embossed so they feel 3-D



an ad for the older version of my laptop! i remember how i thought that laptop was so modern and cool haha. i think it's 3 or 4 years old. i thought it was weird to see this in a 2009 magazine, especially a korean one, because their technology always seemed more advanced than the western world...



this thing has real teeth in it. according to my sources (aka Jun and the GD, the skull is Damien Hirst's diamond skull which you can read more about here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6712015.stm