%0 Journal Article %T Pyjamas, nylon stockings, and other Olympic dreams. %A Jeroen de Kloet %J EspacesTemps.net %D 2009 %I Association Espaces Temps.net %X Photography by Elaine W. Ho. While strolling through the streets of Xiamen in the summer of 1992, I came across many young women wearing short nylon stockings. I remember, with shame, I must confess now, how I would make fun of them with my friends. Taking Dutch standards as the yardstick of good taste, I considered nylon stockings to be part of one¡¯s underwear, whose fringes, indeed the boundaries between the clothed and naked body, were not to be revealed in public. Similar smiles appeared ... %U http://www.espacestemps.net/document7734.html