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Local students encouraged to wear Thai traditional dresses once a week
BANGKOK, June 13 (TNA) - The Thai Ministries of Culture and Education have coordinated to encourage students across the country to wear traditional Thai dresses once a week.
Somchai Sianglai, Permanent Secretary for Culture, said Monday that the initiative is good and should receive continuous support, and that his ministry will ask universities nationwide through the Office of the Higher Education Commission to encourage students to wear Thai traditional dresses once a week.
The move, Somchai acknowledged, followed the Thai Cabinet's recent resolution on encouraging Thai people to wear Thai traditional dresses and an initiative of Chiang Mai University's Faculty of Dentistry to first urge students to wear Thai traditional and native dresses once a week.
Somchai said that his ministry has been assigned by the Cabinet to design dresses to be made from Thai fabrics; so, his ministry has decided to use the Prarachathan male shirt designed by His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej and is having designers to develop modern female Thai traditional dresses.
According to the senior official, the Thai Ministry of Culture will also ask the Office of the Basic Education Commission, the Office of the Vocational Education Commission and the Office of the Private Education Commission under the Thai Ministry of Education to encourage students under their jurisdiction to wear Thai traditional and native dresses once a week as well.
The senior Culture Ministry official noted that his ministry has focused the official campaign on local youths because the younger generations can effectively prolong Thai traditional dresses. (TNA)
Somchai Sianglai, Permanent Secretary for Culture, said Monday that the initiative is good and should receive continuous support, and that his ministry will ask universities nationwide through the Office of the Higher Education Commission to encourage students to wear Thai traditional dresses once a week.
The move, Somchai acknowledged, followed the Thai Cabinet's recent resolution on encouraging Thai people to wear Thai traditional dresses and an initiative of Chiang Mai University's Faculty of Dentistry to first urge students to wear Thai traditional and native dresses once a week.
Somchai said that his ministry has been assigned by the Cabinet to design dresses to be made from Thai fabrics; so, his ministry has decided to use the Prarachathan male shirt designed by His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej and is having designers to develop modern female Thai traditional dresses.
According to the senior official, the Thai Ministry of Culture will also ask the Office of the Basic Education Commission, the Office of the Vocational Education Commission and the Office of the Private Education Commission under the Thai Ministry of Education to encourage students under their jurisdiction to wear Thai traditional and native dresses once a week as well.
The senior Culture Ministry official noted that his ministry has focused the official campaign on local youths because the younger generations can effectively prolong Thai traditional dresses. (TNA)
