There is no doubt that wearing sandals with socks is an intolerable trend in any country.
Wikipedia describes the origin of sandals with socks as "related to geek culture".
American fashion mogul Tim Gunn wrote in the 2012 Fashion Bible, "Don't do it unless you're an ancient Egyptian pharaoh from the fifth century BC."
But in Vietnam, there are basically no girls on the street wearing sandals without socks.
They dare to break with their fashionable ancestry and push the boundaries of modernity to protect themselves from the sun.
Vietnam is located in the tropics, with an average year-round temperature of more than 20 degrees Celsius and humidity of more than 80 percent. It can be said that living in Vietnam is like walking in a sauna center where you can never see the exit.
But for Vietnamese girls, even if they wear wet wipes on their feet every day, they still want to stop ultraviolet rays from entering their bodies to the end.
Sandals and socks are two items that on their own may bring a sweet or savory effect on the feet. But when these two innocent companions are paraded in pairs, even taut, tamped-down jodhpurs can skew the perception of beauty.
Vietnamese girls for the sake of whiteness is not afraid to use the most intolerable way to achieve the purpose, so that is still not white on earth there is no justice.
About why Vietnamese girls so white has always been a global anecdote.
People can not figure out is that this distance from the equator and Nigeria about the same place why people white than rice is still young.
Liking the color white is definitely not the reason for being white, or else the Middle Eastbro would be the first to say no.
Vietnamese girls are actually white, thanks entirely to the fact that Vietnamese girls are deeper than the jungle in sunscreen.
Italian traveler photographer Lippi once mentioned in the Vietnam travel notes, after she carefully observed in Vietnam basically can not buy whitening ingredients or related slogans of daily products.
Wearing sandals and socks is just a microcosm of their sun-consciousness.
Defying fashion to become white is only the first step for Vietnamese girls. In fact, if you go to the streets of Vietnam on a day when it's 30 or 40 degrees, you'll see that they don't care about anything in order to get whiter.
Vietnam is virtually the only tropical country where the windshield for battery-powered vehicles can be sold.
Walking through the streets of Vietnam in the summer, you feel a sense of spatial disorientation that comes from being in Truong Sa in the winter.
Think about it differently, you can't do this level of whitening, delicate skin in the summer still carry this will definitely cover the heat rash.
The sun is just a superficial thing for the Vietnamese, and there is nothing inside that can make people hot.
Many foreign tourists wonder why Vietnamese girls wear bras over their faces in cars, and some straight people on Reddit speculate that they use mint flavor.
In fact, this is a Vietnamese specialty sunscreen mask.
International clothing market, the Vietnamese sunshade and Korean plastic German kitchenware Japanese martial arts, is a kind of consumer recognition of traditional traditional technology, cultural output.
People say that in times of trouble now true love in times of trouble to see the skills.
Vietnamese girls in order to whiten dare to seal themselves in the dark, in the pursuit of white, is simply a heifer queue - one after another bull.
And in Vietnam sunscreen is actually the big picture, a public enemy.
It's not just Vietnamese girls who dare to put their hands on UV rays, but also Vietnamese men and dogs.
Vietnamese boys go out like they are going to attack a city.
A medieval full body armor is their confidence to do business and farming under the sun.
Every cardboard appliance wrapper can be turned into a guarantee that the head of the family will be able to go out on the town by a nephew, cousin or son-in-law.
The Vietnamese see the sun as their eternal enemy.
If they could not withstand a frontal invasion of the enemy with the solid armor on their bodies, they would draw the battlefield into the jungle, using traps and guerrillas to make every dawn of the sun an afterglow.
They exiled themselves to the darkness only to return home to be bright and shining before those they loved most.
They are always on guard in the safest of shelters, just so that their loved ones at home can have peace of mind.
It can be said that the Vietnamese whitening campaign is from men to women, from old to young, from top to bottom, from the trenches to the desk.
In the streets of Vietnam you can hardly see black cars or every car here is a black car.
Under the heavy armor, every Vietnamese breaks the color of a white cloud.
But trends suggest that perhaps we won't be seeing white Vietnamese girls in the near future.
Last January, a photo of a ghostly girl worshipping Buddha on the side of the road caused a huge buzz on the Vietnamese internet.
Vietnam, as one of the strongholds of Northern Buddhism, has a strong religious atmosphere in the country so it is not surprising that there are traveling monks on the side of the road, and it is not surprising that most of the Vietnamese people are pious enough to meet monks on the road to pay a visit.
The strange thing is that the girl in the photo of the ghost fire is not clothed, blinking and even make people think that she is not wearing a shirt.
While netizens and the media have been thinking and feeling sad about the girls' plight, the photos have also revealed the fact that the younger generation of Vietnamese girls increasingly do not care about sun protection.
Nowadays, many of the coolly dressed girls on some of Vietnam's busiest commercial streets have begun to abandon their preconceived notions about the sun, boldly rejecting their obsession with sun protection.
Stroll through bright Ho Chi Minh City and you'll see the new youth fighting the scorching sun's rays in the most head-iron way possible, with just a layer of grease and sweat that's poorer than the desert.
Search Google for Vietnam Street View and you'll see mostly bare metal.
You'd have to add something like "Classic" or "MILF" to get a graphic with the full package.
Even those aunts from the ballroom era were shifting to a lighter trajectory.
I tried searching for Vietnam street scenes on Tube, but for some reason the video covers at the front of the row looked like they revealed a black creepiness from head to toe.
The lighting was dim and even the people's skin was dark.
The white Vietnamese girl was turned into a memory on the video site along with 270P. In the world of the HD original, black will take its place as the new emperor.
In an earlier ThingsAsian article on whitening of Vietnamese girls, an interviewee in the beauty industry said she had observed more and more Vietnamese girls starting to dye their blonde hair brown instead.
And she herself has gradually distanced herself from whitening products.
"Dark skin makes me unique and it's popular with Westerners."
A 2017 popularity study of the Asia-Pacific region by Yougov, a British market research firm, found that 51 percent of people in the region overall care about keeping up with trends.
Taken on its own, that's 62 percent in Vietnam, 61 percent in Indonesia, 60 percent in the Philippines, and the figure is 30 percent in T&T.
So beauty seems to be a wavering standard in Vietnam.
While the lovebirds on the screen are widely known for their whiteness, Vietnamese girls are just polished.
And when the hashtags on the photos uploaded by these lovebirds on social media are almost always associated with wheat and health, Vietnamese girls are in the dark.