Thai TikTokers make ‘elephant pants’… cool?
A SENATION
Toei, 27, who just gave her second title, is posing at Chiang Mai’s historic walls while wearing the “adorable” elephant display from head to toe.
Her 28-year-old friend Ong, who also has the printing, added,” First, they were a hit among travellers, but now they’re trending on TikTok owing to bloggers.”
We therefore adopted the pattern.
Kingkarn” Jack” Samon’s mill, where countless rolls of pachyderm-inspired images are measured, sliced, and wrapped, is a half-hour pull away.
During a tour of the facility, which employs about 100 people and produces between 1,000 and 2,000 products per day, she told AFP that” the pants have become popular in Thailand.”
Since the conclusion of the COVID- 19 pandemic, requests for items like shirts, clothes, and even purses have increased by 30 %. The jeans make up 85 % of all sales.
Hers is merely a tiny speck in the kingdom’s textile and clothing sector, which makes up about 3 % of its GDP.
The material is imported by Kingkarn from China, shipped to Bangkok for printing, and then transported 700 km back to her mill.
However, there has been some debate regarding the development’s reputation.
After some Cambodians asserted that Thailand had appropriated the elephant printing, Kingkarn explained that an online discussion brought local writers to her entry.
She did acknowledge with a smirk that the debate has increased sales, refusing to get drawn on the most recent iteration of the long-standing rivalry.
