Today in a small town, where the mountains rise from the plain, the yellow shirts are out in force. These celebrations have potency and on-going interest far from Bangkok. I am almost expecting that for the rest of the year, up until the King’s birthday and beyond, this current generation of yellow shirts will continue to be worn day-to-day. They are a great look, one of these days I will need to get one myself. Â
Monday = Yellow
June 26th, 2006 by Nicholas Farrelly · 5 Comments
Tags: Thailand
5 responses so far ↓
1 varaporn // Jun 27, 2006 at 12:17 am
One of the reasons for the pervasive Yellow Mondays is because every (royal) government offices (and a number of private companies) throughout the country has issued an “invitation for cooperation” asking their employees to wear yellow shirts everyday from 1-15 June and every monday after that until the end of the year. Yes, you’re right. The Yellow Mondays will continue to be in force till the end of the year.
2 Nicholas Farrelly // Jun 28, 2006 at 1:24 am
Varaporn,
Thanks for pointing out the existence of this “invitation”. I look forward to the many yellow Mondays to come.
NSF
3 New Mandala » Just Another Yellow Monday… // Aug 21, 2006 at 10:31 pm
[...] Further to my post of June 26, Bangkok remains awash with yellow every Monday. I can also report, with some authority, that the city’s major wholesale clothing markets remain stocked with hundreds of thousands of yellow shirts. I am not exaggerating! [...]
4 New Mandala » 19/9, a Tuesday // Sep 20, 2006 at 5:05 am
[...] This coup could never have been called on a Monday. Monday is, as we have remarked many times on New Mandala, the King’s day. This year it has been marked as the day of yellow shirts and public ritual. [...]
5 New Mandala » From the New Mandala archives // Nov 9, 2006 at 9:47 am
[...] Back in June – when a coup was almost unthinkable and when the afterglow of the royal celebrations was still fresh - I wrote my very first piece for New Mandala. It was published on 20 June 2006. I was in Bangkok at the time and had been struck by the yellow shirts that had become a ubiquitous social and political statement by then. [...]
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