Who likes Da-Nang??
 

So I've been seeing increasing numbers of people in all of the cute Da-Nang cargo-esque pants lately. What are everyone's opinions of these???

I think they're pretty cute....not sure if I want to invest in them right now, but its a definite possibility!!!

Here's a link to some of their styles if you are unfamiliar!

Rachel, I clicked on the link but it just took me to a page filled with a bunch of codes.

I'm really curious as to why they called them Da-Nang?

Why would you name clothing after a city in Vietnam? At least the former name of a city.

Then again, I don't suppose it brings back any memories, good or bad, for most of you.

I agree DA...I think the name is in really poor taste.

p.s., if you don't understand why I say that, do an internet search please.

These are uglier than both peasant skirts and capris and looks like it somehow combines the two.

-Rudey
--I couldn't hook up with a girl with those pants.

Gonna have to agree with rudey on this one.

Those look uglier than anything we sold at Old Navy. Well, except for Tech Vests.

Kitso
KS 361

I always thought tech vests were just Old Navy's way of proving to the world that if they advertised wearable dog crap that people would buy it and wear it.

Its true.

It's a theory also proven by A&M vendors who were testing a theory if you put the A&M logo on things, Aggies will still buy it.

I walked in a book store to see them selling rocks, with the A&M logo etched into them.

Seriously,

I love A&M, but what the hell do i need a rock with it's logo for...

but we digress....back to the ugly pants. Seriously, we sold those Cargo Capris at Old Navy last summer, cost about 20 bucks.

Kitso
KS 361

I gotta back up the guys on this one. Trendy and overpriced. Looks like the kind of thing Paris Hilton would wear, and she ain't exactly my fashion role model.

Plus, I'm sort of bewildered by the Vietnam reference. Not sure why they picked it, but it definitely seems a little offensive. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Da Nang the location of the air strip where the last American soldiers pulled out of S. Vietnam? I remember something about the helicopters just being overrun with people begging the Americans to take them along but there wasn't enough room.

Sorry if my memory is fuzzy, I was only born in 1978 and haven't taken any American history classes since my junior year of undergrad! But the point is that I wouldn't name a clothing company after a war site. Would you want to buy Hiroshima shoes, or maybe an Omaha Beach bikini? Umm, no thanks!

Last time I checked, Da Nang is still called Da Nang. It's Ho Chi Minh City that used to be called Saigon, though many Vietnamese immigrants that now live in the USA still call it Saigon, much like some Russians who grew up in Leningrad and insist on calling it that though the new (original) name is Saint Petersburg.

Hell, anything's better than these contrived names they give nowadays to cars and companies. I mean, what the f*** is Accenture?!?!? (formerly Arthur Andersen) or Altria (formerly Philip Morris).

You're exactly right. I've gotta put my brain in gear before I engage my fingers...

Strange name to use in a clothing line, but I wouldn't consider it offensive to that extent.

Da Nang was the location of a major U.S. military base in Vietnam. China Beach (also the name of a TV series) was a famous 'in-country'R&R (rest and recreation) area in Da Nang. Memorable TV images of the time (nearly 30 years ago) show South Vietnamese refugees trying to get out of the country before the commies took over. It was not unusual for airplanes to be totally overloaded evacuating civilians.

Bikini originates from Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific, where the first post-WWII atomic bomb tests took place. When French clothing designers came out with the skimpy (for its time) two-piece bathing suit for women, they dubbed it the 'bikini' because of the scandalous and potentially explosive reaction expected from conservative fashion tastes. It was not until a few years ago that radiation levels subsided enough to permit sport SCUBA diving in the atoll's lagoon.

if those are the pants that every girl at ASU is wearing, then there great, the girls here seem to have gotten better looking this semester

I don't think the name is necessarily offensive -- just a strange choice.

I suspect the images G8Ralphaxi is talking about is the famous film of the last Marine Helos evacuating people from the roof of the US Embassy in Saigon.

Could be. The more I think about it, I didn't get a lot of education about the Vietnam War in school. My history teachers in high school glossed over it and the political science classes I took in college focused on european history, american government, or more contemporary issues. there's only one that really covered vietnam in any depth whatsoever, and the prof was, well, a little weird (took the word "paranoid" to whole new levels).

The main point I was trying to make is why would someone think this was a good name for a company? There's nothing about the Vietnam War that makes me think, "Gee I really would like some new cargo pants!"

But hey, I guess I'm just not fashionable. I also think the Von Dutch hats are U-G-L-Y (and they ain't got no alibi! :D)

When I think of Indochina, I think of cargo pants because it's a damn adventure.

-Rudey
--I'd love to take some time and travel through the orient, smoking an opium pipe, eating delicious fish sauce on anything but fish.

They don't look any different from cargo pants in other stores. I thought that they'd be light weight capri pants with Asian print or something

they don't look like they'd be particularly flattering either.... all those pockets and stuff just don't look right on women.... and I do second the fact that they don't look like anythign special compared to what else is out there for far less

ya....most of the people I've seen with them have been stick skinny girls/women walking around old town scottsdale or fashion square. Come to think about it, they would so not look good on me. Oh well. Still kind of cute

Co-sign.

Ewww.

They're not necessarily my style. They look funny to me.

I keep thinking puntang.

-Rudey
--In that case, I do.

They are pretty popular in the summer where I'm from. I'm glad too. I don't have to carry a purse when I wear those type of pants because of the pockets.