Ask a North Korean: How fashion works in North Korea

http://www.nknews.org/2014/10/ask-a-north-korean-how-fashion-works-in-north-korea/

I find this article interesting mostly cause I like fashion, but this article also has economic influence.

In North Korea the economy is controlled by the government, when they produce clothing it is usually low quality, low quantity, and in drab colors. This caused a black market of secondhand Chinese and Japanese clothing to become a status symbol. In this article a girl tells the story of how when she was in school in the 1990s government control and fashion influenced her life.