Sweater Bag

Sweater used as Bag,  Maker Pictured,  photographs by Remie Cibis

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Garbage Bag Raincoat

Garbag Bag Raincoat, Maker Pictured, photograph by Amy Marjoram

Hong Kong

Wet Towel Head Cooler

Wet Towel Head Cooler, Maker Pictured, photograph by Amy Marjoram

Shanghai, China.

Many people across Asia use the wet towel draped over the head approach for staying cool,  but not as many fasten it together with a matching coloured peg.

Sun Hat & Cooling Drink

Sun Hat, Maker Pictured,  photographs by Amy Marjoram

Cooling Drink, Maker Pictured, photographs by Amy Marjoram

Tianmen Square, Beijing, China.

Tissue Glasses

Tissue Glasses, Maker Pictured, photograph by Amy Marjoram.

This guy tucked a tissue under his glasses then went to sleep.  It doesn’t appear to block out any light,  so be must have felt it filtered his breath or something?

Bus between Taiyuan and Datong, Shanxi prvovince, China.

Plastic Bag Shoe Protectors (Rainy Day)

Plastic Bag Shoe Protectors (Rainy Day), Maker Unkown, photograph by Amy Marjoram

Xian, Shaanxi Province, China

Comb used as hair fastener

Comb used as hair fastener, Makers Pictured,  photographs by Amy Marjoram

Roadside town between Muong Lay and Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam.

I believe these women may be ethnically Black Hmong, many Black Hmong women wear there hair combed up and held either with metal combs or modern plastic combs.  I previously only associated these archetypal plastic combs with the act of combing, not for holding hair in place, which now seems like an obvious usage.