re: "White bows pose no harm" (BP, Editorial, Juna 11, 2020)
Dear editor,
If the "amazing trusted Thailand" authorities declare white bows unclean in public, it follows that all those hi-so types gadding around public venues whilst got up in white tie, which mandates the tying of a white bow, are in fact unclean. That Thailand's over-dressed elite are so suspect might not come as any great surprise, but that Thai authorities should openly imply that those who get themselves up in white bows embody uncleanness does amaze.
And the less formal black tie tier lurking below the whites are doubtless worried: Are black bows equally unclean? Or is black tie in public officially more or less unclean than white?
And then there is all that bunting, including white, often strewn from public facilities. If a mere white bow is unclean, what is to be made of swathes of multi-coloured bunting? The officially implied uncleanness quotient must be astronomical, a true sufficiency of uncleanness as the arch-traditionalists might put it in their modern Thainess-4.0-speak.
Felix Qui
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The above letter to the editor is the text as submitted by Felix Qui to the Bangkok Post.
The text as edited was published in PostBag on June 13, 2020, under the title "Dirty white ties?" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/1934068/hazy-booze-ideas
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