Tourists warned about wearing school uniforms

Chinese tourists pose for pictures in Thai student uniforms at the Sriphan shop in Bangkok. Store management posted the picture on its Facebook page late last month and thanked the visitors for buying student uniforms there.

Young Chinese women visiting the country have taken to dressing up in Thai school uniforms, and the Ministry of Education is less than thrilled by their fashion statements.

Being a non-student and wearing a school uniform is okay, it turns out, as long as it does not have the initials of a real school on it. But if someone wearing a real uniform with a real school name on it ends up doing something that could stain the reputation of that real school, they’re in for real trouble.