If you are a Fat Annoying Westerner, do you become a Mega Asshole by having or wearing a Krama?

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Re: If you are a Fat Annoying Westerner, do you become a Mega Asshole by having or wearing a Krama?

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timmydownawell wrote: Wed Apr 12, 2017 10:48 am If I had one I'd probably wear it sarong style around the house. Apart from that, nope.
Neck krama and waist krama different sizes, I pretty much live in a waist krama when at home, but would never wear a neck krama as I don't really see the point in it.
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is it a waist karma or Sarong?
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phuketrichard wrote: Wed Apr 12, 2017 11:27 am is it a waist karma or Sarong?
pretty much
not much different to wearing a towel i guess
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phuketrichard wrote: Wed Apr 12, 2017 11:27 am is it a waist karma or Sarong?

Same, same...but in Cambodia men wear Kramas and women wear sarongs.
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My wife has cut for me some Khmer shirts and kept a jacket/blazer thing from our wedding. I always feel strange going out wearing it.


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Perhaps my post "... I wear a kroma around my waist to hold small bladed tools when I work in the fields. " needs further clarification. It is a kroma for the neck, folded over many times to form a belt and is worn around long pants.
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Ask the fat westerner wearing the krama who is always sitting at the bar in Larry's.
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I wear a Krama when out birding, serves as a towel/napkin/handkerchief.
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taabarang wrote: Wed Apr 12, 2017 9:51 am I wear a kroma around my waist to hold small bladed tools

when I work in the fields.


And no, no local has ever mistaken me for a Cambodian or even trying to be one. They just think that's what you should do.

And I assume thats where you keep your work permit, in case someone asks for it while you are out working. ?
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"And I assume thats where you keep your work permit, in case someone asks for it while you are out working. ?"

I do not work for others. I am a non salaried husband working his own land for his family. Thank you for your for your concern about my compliance with the law.
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