Planet Shanghai: What's In The Bag?

Remember the brouhaha when someone in Wales, UK, got banned from the supermarket chain Tesco for wearing pajamas while shopping? Well, that's nothing compared to the people of Shanghai. They've elevated wearing pajamas in public into an art form!

Award-winning photographer Justin Guariglia documented the beauty and charm of the PJ-crazy Chinese people in his book Planet Shanghai. Because of the upcoming 2010 World Expo, there's renewed interest in the part of the city officials to make sure that the people of Shanghai are presentable by suppressing their habit of wearing pajamas in public.

Whether you view those who go about their business wearing pajamas as committing fashion faux pas or are hipsters in disguise, you'll get a kick out of Justin's book Planet Shanghai, excerpted over at our wide-format Spotlight blog: http://www.neatorama.com/spotlight/2010/03/25/planet-shanghai/

Justin and the book's publisher, Chronicle Books, are kind enough to supply 2 free copies of the book for a giveaway, so let's have a little fun, shall we?

Take a look at the photo above and answer this: What's in the bag?

The two funniest/best answers win a free copy of Planet Shanghai. Enter your answer in the comment section below - one entry per comment, please. You can enter as many as you'd like. Be sure to visit Justin's website and our Spotlight feature on Planet Shanghai for inspiration. Good luck!

Update: congratulations to Clarabelle and Mr. Weaver who won the free books!

Maybe that is a woman of some sort?

When I was in China everyone was going about in pajamas. I just assumed that no one could afford anything better, but it maybe is a holdout from Mao days, and those awful Mao suits?
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What a horrendous trend. For one thing, they just look horrible. Secondly, if they are actually used as pyjamas then it's even more disgusting.
There was a trend for this recently among "millies" in Belfast, Northern Ireland. There was a huge public backlash against them.
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Years ago in the jungles of South America Lee's uncle was captured by natives. Lee loved his uncle but he's taking the only thing he has left of him for appraisal. Hoping to get a silk smoking jacket; it is finally time to sell jiujiu's shrunken head.
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Clearly the bag contains his extra pair of slippers in case of a rainy day. Also possibly a nice sparkly sleeping/eye mask for when he wants to acessorize.
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I'm grew up in Shanghai, and yes we do go about our business in pajamas and I love it! I also love the variety of PJs available. I wish I could wear my PJs around here in the US. They're are so many styles and colors. They are NOT the drab boring mumus most americans are used to. As for the hygeine comment, yes we do sleep in these PJs but we usually own more than one pair and wash them daily while alternating pairs. The only places you probably couldn't wear PJs to are to work or to a formal restaurant (casual ones are ok). Also we tend to only wear them if we are staying near home. The rule of thumb is, if we have to take a motor vehicle there (i.e. a bus), you can't wear PJs. So we wouldn't wear PJs to the exact same market/restaurant if it's further away. =)
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The extra props for his stand in role in the Old spice commercial,
That's were the manly attire is kept along with the boat, oyster with two tickets to that thing you love, diamonds, and a horse.

If he walked around with out his disguise on, the ladies would be all over him.
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I bet he has two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls. Not that he needed all that for the trip, but once you get into locked a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.
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The bag contains a tie and black socks to dress up for meetings, and an athletic headband to dress down for hanging out. He covers all the sartorial bases that way.
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Hey, that's an easy one. Like all stylish pyjama wearing men he has a pair of plastic over-shoes, hair straighteners and an emergency cup'a'soup!
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Probably his wallet, keys and condoms of course(we all know that the Chinese don't know when/how to pull it out)...but who cares whats in the bag. Look at him how cute he is. He is such a doll.
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I've seen this before. The answer is:
Plane tickets, ibuprofen, tiny dog, mittens, driving licence, contact lenses, umbrella, rubber band, false teeth, dog biscuits, directions, a balaclava and some Rawlplugs.
The answer came to me whilst I was experiencing a slight mania.
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