Jul 25, 2008

上海人的大禮服 Shanghainess's formal dress

以前初訪上海時,看到滿街穿睡衣上街的人,感到驚訝不已。後來才聽人說,在上海穿睡衣上街,表示你是有錢人。試問,窮人連外出衣都沒得穿了,還有閒錢買睡衣嗎? 尤其得穿整套的睡衣上街,才顯得夠氣派…


上次去上海,因為還是冬天的時候,街上「有錢人」所穿的睡衣都是厚厚車棉的那種,十分明顯。這次去的時候是夏天,本來還好奇這些「有錢人」又該怎麼穿呢? 果不其然,大白天在福州路口,也就是上海的書店街上,就看到這位叼根煙大喇喇走在街上的有錢人。平均每天總會遇到四五個有錢人出現在上海市的各個角落。出門在外,實在沒那個心思一直追著睡衣人當狗仔,拍幾個有錢人給大家見識一下就好。

不過,儘管上海人穿起睡衣無入而不自得,我倒是沒在書店裡看過睡衣人。也許他們的社會裡還是存在著某種規範,只是外地人不知道罷了。

In Shanghai, only rich people wearing pajama on the streets. They thought only rich people are rich enough, have extra money to buy a set of pajama. Poor people can't even afford outdoor clothing, how could they have pajama?


男人穿睡衣上街不稀奇,女人穿睡衣上菜場就了不起了吧。上海人啊,有錢也要低調一點咩,不要讓大家知道啊。

Man wearing pajama on the street is nothing, woman wearing pajama to the market is amazing! Shanghainese, please try to be low-keyed, don't let people know you are rich, even though you are rich...


照片裡看不太出來,不過右邊這位「阿姨」穿得可是綾羅綢緞的絲綢睡衣哦。

It's hard to tell from this picture, but this lady on the right is wearing "Suzhou silk" pajama.

其實上海街頭的「有錢人」遠不止此,尤有甚者,穿睡衣配黑皮鞋的老紳士比比皆是。夏天的上海還有一點讓人吃驚的地方,就是只著內褲的膀爺也滿街都是。曾在上海新天地旁的巷口,看到一個著內褲的膀爺,居然還是個擺攤做生意的小販!!! 和台北比較起來,上海真是個自由的大城市啊…

這次近距離觀察過這些上海人之後,我很好奇的一點是: 他們的這些睡衣真的是穿上床睡覺用的嗎? 真的是一大早起來,就穿著已穿了一晚的睡衣上街買菜嗎? 因為大部分這些睡衣人的成套睡衣都很新,有的連一點皺折都沒有,這些在外地人看來是睡衣叫睡衣的睡衣,對上海人來說,是不是就是體面的外出服呢?

After all, I am still wondering: Does Shanghainese wear the very same pajama go to bed, then get up in morning, and go shopping with the very same pajama? From my observation, some of the pajamas I can't even find a single wrinkle on it. Those pajamas we called pajamas are real pajamas, isn't it a formal dress for Shanghainese?

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