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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;toomanytocount, post: 265439, member: 5115&quot;]I love Van Gogh, never seen this painting of his. Metal detector....ha&nbsp; ha!</p><p>I also love wearing black clothes, so know first hand, how easily they look frumpy.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s a culture thing I suppose, and once worn long enough, they probably did not look completely black or dark blue, even if clean. Our farmers and laborers wore brown, tan, or denim, same thing once well worn, colors were forever changed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Funny story about my uncle, married to my godmother (a Canadian Embassy staffer), who was French from Marseilles, and worked for the French government as an attache to the Indochina colony (think spy). He sent me a book in French, written by a young French guy who stayed in China for several months and lived in the countryside, this is after 1950. He was very surprised and then happy that washing and wearing clean clothes was not part of their daily rituals. No reflection on the Chinese, this is what was said in the book published in the 1970s.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, glad we can joke together. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie49" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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