28 socialist hairstyles meet North Korean approval

Maggie Kuo and Charlie Storrar: "Kim Jong-un's own 1990s grunge style is curiously not among them." [wantchinatimes.com]

• [jandrese]

  No mullet option?  I don’t think I could live there.  

  • [Andrew Singleton]

    Well that and the starvation, the gunpoint propaganda, the censoring of everything, work camps, and so forth.

    • [Boundegar]

      But it’s the ban on mullets that really says “totalitarianism.”

• [Kevin Pierce]

  Something about this reminds me of Logan’s Run

  • [Michael Smith]

    That all the models appear to be about 28?

• [peregrinus]

  Actually, I think this shows the People’s Democracy in a rosy light.  I’d have figured for the boys, buzzcut only.  For the ladies, buzzcut.  Bar the people they show on TV.

  Ladies 13-17 look downright long and impractical.

• [Kevin Pierce]

  Men: Lose that facial hair!
  Women: Red lipstick!
  Now dance!

• [Wreckrob8]

  Can I have that in pink, please?

  • [Andrew Singleton]

    How /DARE/ you! EXTRA WORK HOURS YOU HAVE VOLUNTEERED FOR CITIZEN!

• [jaybar]

  The men’s page looks like the album cover from the North Korean version of DEVO.

• [Godfree]

  Those photos are from @dguttenfelder’s Instagram stream. He’s in North Korea and his pics are fascinating.

• [GawainLavers]

  That’s 28 more than I’ve ever actually seen.

  And in the land of the one-hair-doed, the eraserhead is apparently king.

• [James Penrose]

  It people weren’t starving or being imprisoned for not loving Dear Leader enough, this would all seem some elaborate comedy sketch by Second City or something.

• [eldritch]

  Ahhh… the 80s…

• [Cassandra D.]

  There’s the ever popular, “Let’s trim our hair on accordance with the socialist lifestyle.”

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2XVNFzNlZ8 

  • [Antinous / Moderator]

    I’m still waiting for the Mobile Infantry to find the brain bug.

• [Editz]

  Is no one allowed to sport a Jong-il?