Thai Cloth washing & Sunbathed skin

Thai people are usually very clean in their clothing as well as their character. You cannot see any couples holding hands in a public place. They usually give enough respect to the elders of the society. They always maintain cleanliness. Thai people usually wash their top clothes separately from their bottom clothes. As for example jumpers, shirts are washed together while trousers and underwear are washed separately. This is done so as according to Buddhists ideology, the lower part of the body is unclean while the upper part is sanctified. A Thai who is a Buddhist never takes out the skirts over their heads and this is also done because of the same reason.

While hanging out the clothes for drying, the same process is maintained as clothes of upper part of the boy are placed separated from the clothes of the lower part of the body. The same should be applied when drying one's self after bathing. While taking a shower one thing should be kept in mind that one single towel cannot be used for the whole body. The ideal is one towel should be kept for head and second one for the lower part. Thai people don’t like the suntanned skin. According to them this type of skin shows teh poor living conditions of a person.

If someone has dark or heavily tanned skin that means he or she is working outside. So, they believe that the status of a person can be anticipated from the whiteness of their complexion. In this respect Thai people are different than westerners. Westerners want to have tanned skin and that’s why they enjoy sunning thmselves while Thai people want to escape from it. It is a common scene in Thailand that people carrying umbrella in sun. Don’t be surprised if you see a motorcyclist carrying an umbrella in one hand and driving with other hand.