ABOUT KOREAN WOMEN.
Korean women wear no hats, but they wear white cotton socks and straw shoes, with a hole for the toe to conic through. Korean hair is by no means universally black nor universally straight. Children often have quite brown hair, which in the boys will sometimes produce the most beautiful burnished effect, as though the black hair were shot through with gold. This- burnished hair occasionally tumbles in thick, wavv masses round the heads of the voungcr boys. Though most of the boys arc handsome, the women arc plain, unimportant, and depressed, and spend their time, not in washing, but in ironing, the white clothes of the family—a verv length V" per forma nee, accomplished siliiply with wooden rollers and much labour —labour that makes them old before their time. It is this process which a'ives the beautiful gloss peculiar to all Korean oarments; but the time it takes is so great that it has almost become a whole-time occupation of the women.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 171, 22 July 1933, Page 7
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166ABOUT KOREAN WOMEN. Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 171, 22 July 1933, Page 7
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