As women live with the rings on his neck

Beauty, as is known, requires sacrifice. But women Padaung tribe wearing around his neck meter and kilogram thick brass wire, do not consider themselves victims. For them, it is a beautiful and ancient tradition. Thai neighbors call their female giraffes. < Website want to introduce you to these amazing women and talk more about the world in which they live.

Htet, 19 years old h3> Most female giraffes are engaged in trade, designed for tourists who twice a week visit the Padaung villages. Htet sells fabric. Buyers her much more than women with open necks. But in the heat of a heavy metal collar - a difficult test. Therefore Htet husband put in the fan shop.



MAC banks, 32 years old h3> When twenty years ago MAC banks with parents and other compatriots who had fled from the Burmese junta, settled in the Thai village of Huai Pu-Kyung her necklace was very narrow. Gradually, it adds all new coils of brass spiral. Now there are two dozen. Sometimes necklace can be briefly removed, giving the shoulder rest, but MAC banks will not part with him. Untwist them, and then again to wind without assistance difficult. In addition, only with rings woman feels its beauty and belonging to a tribe. Nobody knows how this tradition has gone from Padaung. But MAC banks said that the rings are designed to emphasize the feminine charm and harmony.





Mia, 18 years old h3> A couple of years ago, after the village of Ban Nai Soi appeared laptops and DVD-movies Thai production, she began collecting images of favorite actresses and singers. One of the walls in the house is completely plastered with posters of Mia dozen of her idols. She said Thai women beautiful, but without raisins - they have rings on the neck. The necklace does not cause particular discomfort Mia - she, like other women Padaung, and sleeps in it and clean: do not compress the neck ring and do not restrict movement, says the girl.





With 57 years h3> With lives in the village of Huai-Chia-Thau, the first settlement in Northern Thailand Burmese Padaung, founded in 1995. She plays on a homemade guitar, the husband who drank and sang songs Burmese. At home Co played music for fun and in Thailand exotic singer with a "golden" neck learned to reap the benefits and free no longer stands.





Hla, 21 years old h3> In Thailand she moved to one year old, with his mother. Hla says that her mother had not seen before even mirrors. Now each padaungskoy beauties in the house there is a mirror, and you can smarten up, picking up a shawl color podvorotnichka - a piece of cloth that many female giraffes placed under the upper ring so that they do not rub the skin.





Thun, 8 years h3> The majority of small Padaung already refuse to wear rings. But Thun honors the tradition and for the sake of a beautiful neck is ready to tolerate the inconvenience. The girl loves a legend, told by his grandmother - the wind, which was the dragon and her husband learned that his wife was pregnant with happiness swirled around her. Since then, Padaung women wear around the neck of the whirling symbols. While necklace Tong small, but over time the weight of the ornaments can reach 4-5 kg.





Mutu, 60 years old h3> One of the most influential women in the Huai Pu-Keng, the owner of a very long neck, showing visitors the sights of the village. Chief among them - a telephone booth. The need for it has long disappeared: the villagers have a more compact means of communication. But booth considered too beautiful to abandon it.





Manal, 63 years old h3> To be the head of the village of Huay Pu Keng-- it is responsible. Manali return phone calls from the administration of the city of Mae Hong Son and keeps a record of the visitors of the village. But it is not the position of the woman paints, said Manal, the main thing - it rings. Manali is their age of five, as a mother and grandmother, and does not intend to shoot. She knows all about the ring, can help to unleash another spin or spiral, and sometimes shoulder massage will do.





Majali, 45 years old h3> The owner of the longest neck in Northern Thailand considers that it has reached perfection. Now it remains to protect achieved: if you remove the ring, the neck can not withstand the severity of the head. Majali said that once the ring helped her bring her husband, and now attract buyers souvenirs. The headboard Majali is a teddy bear, which she presented to the tourist. Toy serves as a pillow, though many women Padaung sleep without them, without experiencing problems.





The new decoration is ready. Necklace of brass rings get that little girl of five who wish to wear it. The turns of the spiral will be added as they grow older, if a girl does not want to change the symbol of the national identity in the jewelry with the urban market.







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