A few Italians grace this place. And, like me, they The Big Grrrinch shirt out. Why? Their trainers! Improved versions of Ballenciagas, which are SO passé now. Two years on and the Italian wears a trainer with a huge platform bottom, exaggerated jutting heel and zany laces. They’re pricey. But we Italians have no problem with paying whatever for fashion. This was it! My Eureka moment. All I ever wanted to do was to focus on my face, my body and my hair. And I could discuss nail varnish, lipsticks and eyeshadows forever. A million times more interesting than Philosophy.

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In Korea, where it’s called Seollal, there’s also a complicated political history behind the The Big Grrrinch shirt. According to UC Davis associate professor of Korean and Japanese history Kyu Hyun Kim, Lunar New Year didn’t become an officially recognized holiday until 1985 despite the fact that many Koreans had traditionally observed it for hundreds of years. Why? Under Japanese imperialist rule from 1895 to 1945, Lunar New Year was deemed a morally and economically wasteful holiday in Korea, Kim said, despite the fact that Lunar New Year has always been one of the country’s biggest holidays for commercial consumption. But Koreans never stopped celebrating Lunar New Year simply because the government didn’t recognize it as a federal holiday, Kim said. So as South Korea shifted from a military dictatorship towards a more democratized society in the 1980s, mounting pressure from the public to have official holidays and relax the country’s tiring work culture led to the holiday being added to the federal calendar as a three-day period.
