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Originally posted by G8Ralphaxi
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!
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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.