Hilarious! Chinese Government Fashion Explained

laban means boss now it's quite common more than that though yeah it's more than that but like when i first heard the word laoban was when um i i learned how to address the the kind of the boss of a shop yeah so i used to always go to this place to get my bicycles and stuff fixed there's a bicycle you know those bicycle shops and so i would just i heard other people say it so i started to say it's like glob anyhow you know like high boss greetings yeah it's like and you would you would always call the the kind of you can say it's like a master which you can say for like the workers but the actual guy who runs the shop that it belongs to him you'll say you know it's weird too is there's regional differences too like if you go to shandong yeah people understand don't call each other even if they're not teachers everyone's allowed you call like the restaurant guy allows you the bus driver is the laosha that's interesting yeah everyone's allowed shoes but there we are but lauban is very general you you say that to the leader of the situation sure right so the lauban is the boss yeah okay and you can use it in a literal sense like he's actually the boss of a company and you can also use it as kind of like a way of honoring someone you know if he's like the top dog at the table or something you can call him the lao ban it's just depends on the situation sure but it's very important to understand that it's also a very niche not niche very widespread aesthetic it's literally the aesthetic for china so we call it the lao ban acidic now it's it's kind of like in the west people will power dress you know so they'll like if you go to wall street or something people wearing suits and all that kind of stuff trying to look like you know hey i'm a i'm a sophisticated really important part yeah exactly that type of thing but in china the look you want to go for if you want to exude success and want people to think that you're successful is the lao band look now we are specifically talking about people men over 45 yes yes um and it's born of the ccp look yeah because the ccp boss like cadres and stuff they all dress like this right so we're going to show you what it looks like first yes okay and you're going to see through a very funny video yeah by the way this is not a comedy video this is a video from douyan and it is well it's from it's from very similar it's kind of like tick tock but it's alive and they're trying to sell the lauban look aesthetic clothes in china yeah so and they got lauban like lauben models yeah so we thought we'd show you this these guys are modeling they're modeling these clothes okay it's it's kind of done in a funny way but it's actually not a parody no no no they are selling these clothes so let's take a look what you have with the lava luck is you have a usually fairly loose fitting polo shirt in a muted color it's never a very stark solid color sure so it's like kind of a muted color you'll have short sleeves it's very important that a short sleeve yeah and then you'll have it tucked into dress pants and the dress pants are usually either black or khaki i love how this guy shows you how you can take money in and out of your pocket it's important that's a loud thing to do he's like all right now i'm gonna be able to take the money they're out of the pocket put it back in no problems right it's this almost as if the polo shirts have been bleached in the sun like they're faded almost it's that that color scheme one thing that's very important about a loud bun look is you need to have a uh first of all you have to wear a piece here which are dress shoes right leather shoes most actually i say half the time are fake yeah no they're not real leather it's and they didn't get leather this is something i found very difficult when i was in china because i always wore suits right i would try to get shoes because you walk so much in china you wear them out all the time right so my proper shoes like proper dress shoes would wear out and i tried to find replacement shoes and i could never find good ones because they were all weird it's like a hybrid between a tennis shoe or a like a you know what i mean like you know it's like so it looks like a dress shoe but it's not yeah underneath it's got like grips you know what i mean like sports like a nike we did not plan this i totally forgot about it yeah that's a key element of the aesthetic yeah but aesthetic yeah so it looks it looks like it's kind of a dress shoe on top but it's actually like a sneaker it's like a sneaker it's actually but it's so much uglier than a normal dress and it's also yeah it is it's very ugly and it's very uncomfortable too you'd think it'd be comfortable but it's not i see i i'm so out of the i saw the shoe game in china because i was literally five sizes over the top you go anywhere in china i'm not even joking these guys might find this interesting i'm in a place let's say i'm in a place i'm six one right yeah i'm in a place where the guys are my size if not even taller sometimes let's say somewhere up in donkey that the highest shoe size that you can find is about a size 10. yeah four if you're lucky average for the top is like a nine right that's how i'm a nine and a half right so so i could you could max i could you know it was uncomfortable but i could always find like a shoe that i could squeeze into right i i'm a size 13. the impossible find anything you have to bring it in from hong kong but the thing is the people are just as big so that's so weird you know i always thought that was bizarre yeah yeah lots of my foreign friends couldn't get shoes sure it was an issue anyway back to the lauban look when you're when you're have the lava unlucky you gotta have a belt yep and you pointed out a very key element a key element oh you need to have keys like a keychain that dangles off your belt like a janitor yeah and of course us if you can a cell phone holster type thing that's pretty at least that was pretty important for a while i don't know anymore well and also i think uh something we've managed to forget was you should probably wear a watch right that's definitely a thing and usually either a leather band watch or a fake gold watch yeah right depends on what you know style lava look you're going for now sometimes these shirts can have stripes on them yeah but you need that loose fitting polo and you gotta tuck it in it's this is also considering uh dressing up in china because look china is a very casual society yeah i found it bizarre dude i went to this concert hall in china you know they had that big the big concert grand grand theater whatever the hell it's called you know where they had the library and stuff in shenzhen and i went as part of i can't even remember what it was but i went to a concert thing where they had actual conductors and the conductors were coming up to accept awards and they were coming up dressed like loud buns and in t-shirts dirty t-shirts and stuff i was like this is bizarre to me because you've got a full orchestra there and they're all dressed up like they you know of course he's like orchestra dressed out of the show right yeah but then the conductors are coming up to receive their awards dressed like a i don't know like a peasant boy that you would see in in you know like tom sawyer or something i was like what's going on here it was really bizarre and they're getting like flowers and bouquets but they dressed like literally like they rolled out of a pigsty wow like seriously i couldn't believe it that was the first time i saw this weird aesthetic but look that's china is a very casual society which is nice in some ways yeah for sure i stood out wearing strategies i stood out that's why i wore my suit most of the time is it opened up so many opportunities for me because i stood out not many people wear suits in china but when i would go to when i was working for tencent for instance and they'd have an important speech to make you know the guys that i was working with they would dress up lauban style normally they'd just be t-shirt and jeans yeah but now they have to dress up as lava yeah because it's they get a colored polo shirt but a nice one because as you're going to find out you actually get really good ones when i say good like luxury oh i'll get it well into that in a second yeah so they would dress up in the polisher they're still where jeans the younger guys but they put the polo shirt on at least and that's their idea of like formal attire yeah tucked in yeah yeah you gotta tuck in polo apparently yeah so i want to go on to show you like how this was born and what's considering considered like big lab on energy sure so you have these guys you know these are obviously live sellers they're trying to sell these love on clothes they're probably quite cheap um and have a look at this yeah this is a an example of how much a lava insurance gonna go is gonna run yeah yeah right 15 rmb it's about two three bucks yeah that's cheap two three bucks we're talking like you can go out get yourself a stack of lava on shirts for under 20 bucks sure right we've done it we used to wear lava and shirts when when we used to go riding on our bike adventures because your your clothes would get ruined like if it was raining or something you'd get drenched you just walk into any of those like clothing stores in the small towns where they've got the speakers blaring and you could pick up like for 10 15 rmb just like this you could get just a loud bunch shirt yes yes and you wear it or you use it to like wipe the mud of your bike or whatever i would wear it and then when it got dirty i use it to clean my bike and then throw it out yeah because it's that cheap yeah it is right it's disposable clothing yeah they're not good quality by the way right now actually someone in the chat has a great point that's why lacoste is popular it makes sense now absolutely and we're gonna teach you something okay now this will shock you okay okay we're gonna look at something this is really what set it all off except wolves separate wolves intercept wolves sept wolves are in chinese chipilang which means seven wolves yeah i get that but what i don't get about this and never understood is what is sept i thought is it september uh you know it's like a latin thing except you know it's like oh like that yeah okay now you've explained it to me i always wondered like what's going on is it septic is it a septic wolf could be a septic wall we're gonna call it septic wall okay septic wolf is i and i was shocked is like the go-to chinese brand for lauban where i used to buy sept wolf socks and stuff yeah interesting because it was everywhere it was everywhere because it's the it's the premier chinese brand but what it's insane is that you can find very cheap septual stuff right if you're out in a market like just something yeah but they're all fake though yeah they're faking septal yeah they fake acceptable original sept wolves and keep in mind this is low ass quality it's not great even the real stuff i'm saying yeah yeah it's not great but you go into an airport and they got loud bonds are rolling through airports right yeah and the thing with lauban style is that a lot of these low bonds have a ton of money but you look at them and you'd be like they're they don't have money sure but they have a lot of money they just don't know how to spend it yeah they want to buy the nicest stuff so what these chinese companies do is they market towards them and then artificially jack up the prices yeah so the lao bonds will say hey i got like you know 400 bucks to spend on a shirt because i'm a rich mother effort sure right and i own a factory or something sure sure but instead of going to italy or new york or something to go by the latest fashion they'll just go to like some fancy area of china and then spend at 10 50 100 times the price of what this should be yeah and septual's cheapylong yeah is the premier the premier laubaun attire yes yes in fact it was pretty funny because they used chinese models for the cheaper ones and then they used white monkeys yeah for the expensive ones and we're talking how much 2000 rb now yeah that's a lot i mean that's like that's 300 dollars for a low buncher yeah how about shirts cost a dollar yeah you know like we're just talking about a normal polo shirt here yes okay so we thought it was kind of funny we were in a box we're looking through their website and they saw we saw they used white monkeys like you said only for the most expensive ones yeah and keep in mind white people like in china they don't wear they don't rock the lava look lava is for important people what is with this guy's these white monkeys looking safe by the way yeah i just i don't know where they found these guys but he's wearing the belt that's such a loud belt everything the thing is they're doing the lauban look yeah they're using foreigners to be the the white monkey like models but it seems so out of place it's so rough this is the first time i've seen lauban look be like lao ban chic be modeled by foreigners yeah yeah it's weird it is it's really weird you know you gotta have that belt buckle up pretty high very very high yeah the higher the better the higher the better yeah yeah uh the ccp look right it is it is you see these giant pings like that it is belt but they make cigarettes separate wolves which is insane they're i used to smoke they are horrible but a lot of uh places get busted for bringing them in their borders you know when you mention that south africa thing i looked it up that happened in america too oh really yeah chinese people were bringing them and selling them in their takeout restaurants yeah you know my i had a taiwanese kind of like a uncle figure in south africa and he used to he used to get these from the chinese sailors at the port they would smuggle it into him and then he was this brand yeah chippy long i think sept wolves is probably like the most well-known uh outside of china brand i mean does anyone know what cheap ilong is anywhere you go to a poll outside in philadelphia but sept wolves but also think about it though i guess he was selling to the local um chinese diaspora maybe through the you know his dodgy connections maybe maybe selling to the african you know what i will say guys chinese people will not smoke cheap yeah that is not unless you're the only one i guess if you're like no but no it's not like that right when you're in another country yeah then it's like oh this is woman you know you know what i mean yeah so like back to fork like whip it out no but they'd whip it out as well like at the chinese restaurant or something and they were smoking their own chinese brand rather than a as a smoker and hedges smoker in china you might be right outside of china as a smoker in china you don't want to become dead no not in not in china people would be like what that what are you doing i remember the ones that this uncle guy was bringing into south africa were more premium though they had like a red they had a red package and there's gold they're considered a bad cigarette in china yeah uh anyway yeah so you got this you got cheap lying you got septuals yes you got these outlandish prices they they set the scene yeah ccpc so we decided to go through some of the b-roll yeah some of the b-roll that we have you know from when i shot it and you shot it back in uh china we thought we'd just spot a couple of lavansville we'll critique them we're gonna creating yeah so let's let this guy come down the stairs he's got a nice little gate he's got a good gate for a loud bottom and i'll tell you one he's got the bag yeah pause it right there so one thing i like about this guy what it stands out to you he's got the gut he's got the gut key super key yeah and you mentioned the bag yeah the bag that's fantastic what a nice element to add on it was kind of strange to me because for the longest time and i i don't know if it's still the case it probably is but you would find this style kind of went out of fashion in the big cities but then when we wish to travel when we travel to the lesser big cities you thing to carry on that's like chic for the lao band man to carry a woman's voice this guy yeah he's got one under his arm it's a either a fake probably fake lv because his wife or his i presume it's his wife has a handbag there for those of you who can't see he's uh that's his man that's his man bag yeah now one issue i have with this he does by the way he's got a perfect example of those shoes you're talking about oh he does it's the the fake dress shoes that are actually kind of sneakers you slip them on yeah now important very important detractor here is that that lavon shirt it's a loud button shirt but it is not tucked in he's massive detracting points that's no good it's gonna be tucked in i'm gonna give him a four out of ten by the way okay four out of ten for la banshee yeah i think i can agree with that here we have an older love on yeah uh but this isn't good enough because first of all his pants are like proper dress pants not those you know the the dress those kind of pants are kind of like a i don't even know what the material is it's different they're they're more durable they're almost like they should be part of a cheap suit yes not a low bond look so the points off for the pants um what points up for the belt position yes those pants are high they need to be as high as hell that's how you get the lauban pant look and the detractor for the shirt give it a pause right there problem with this shirt it's just a real shirt it's it's a lava look it looks bad it's that it's that kind of bad it's got the colors yeah in fact this is a shirt it's one sleeve is striped the other sleeve isn't then he's got striped half done that is horrific yeah okay from that perspective sleeves are too long you cannot have lungs well it's supposed to be a polo shirt not a real shirt okay and that's that's where he messed up but that's a five out of ten he's got the pants for it for sure this guy woke him but uh man he's like a three he's give him let's give him another walk through like let him have his catwalk all right he's got the shoes he's got the pants he's got the belt but a t-shirt go back though it's very important to show what's going on here though okay there's two there's two key uh body positions for a low bond and it's based on cc they literally pick ccp officials because those ccp officials have power yeah ccp officials either stand like this yeah while they smoke cigarettes and look at stuff yes or more importantly yeah hands behind the back in the back and they'll look at something like this you'll see that so that guy gets points for having one of the yeah you know gates or the position but seriously there's a t-shirt no no no no i'll give him a two two and a half two and a half okay now this is a i i threw him in here from you he doesn't look like a loud bun i'll tell you why okay what he's got the perfect cigarette hold and he's also got one of those fake [ __ ] houses he's got a fake fight he's got a fake phone yes those are kilo button elements but unfortunately his outfit you wouldn't wear a jacket no no no all right i'll give them a three but i love the elements yeah what do we got here this guy on the left this is a great lauban example unfortunately he's untucked but look at his oh the guy behind him got behind him that's a loud bomb yeah he's dangling gucci fake gucci belt that's him that's a low back right there that's the love one look yeah yeah that guy if we could see him unfortunately we can't see you like you could see that the keys dangling oh my gosh if he had a cigarette he'd be a 10 yeah i'm a nine because he's almost there he probably does have a cigarette but in the shenzhen metro you're not out of smoke so he's just waiting for his his attempt his attempts yeah yeah so this is uh i wanted to point this guy out here okay this is this is uh a better more hip version of that i think it's the younger the younger and i call this the real estate lauban look right right it's you get the younger handsome guys selling houses yeah selling apartments and they usually wear this slow bounce shirt but it's not as ugly it's less of a polo shirt more of a real shirt it's got buttons all the way down it's always short sleeve though yeah you got to have the short sleeves this guy it's the same thing it's just a little bit better put together yeah yeah i'd say that's like a that's a six for laubat aesthetic yeah look there's another one behind yeah see that's the that's the same thing yeah it is definitely you know that's your working your your working man you know in the office type thing sure it's kind of an evolution of the life it is i think it's a better version absolutely yeah this guy is much too young to be a lauban yeah oh that's going all in this guy is probably 25 yeah yeah he's got a loud launcher unfortunately untucked yeah he loses points and he's got lavon sandals and we never we didn't point out the lavon sandals yeah those happen that is such a lauban thing when you get a lao ban that's in hotter weather he doesn't want to wear dress shoes he wears the dress sandals yes absolutely that guy's way too young to be pulling this look off yeah but i think he pulls it away yeah it is i give him a seven really okay i'll give him a five he's untucked yeah i'll give him a five it's untucked uh what do we got here uh we have um that's not allowed no no this is again evolution of the lauban look going into the hairdresser look okay i just like the way he was smoking a cigarette he's got the cigarette he's got the bag oh yeah he does he's past it yeah he's gone past that um what do we gotta do this guy here this is right there see the sandals oh yeah the sandals you can see the sandals he's got a rolled up almost a capri version of these dress pants yeah he's untucked but that is a loud shirt of note yeah definitely he's got the cigarettes in the pocket yeah that guy i mean i'm gonna give him i'm gonna give that guy five now these we have it's like a trio of lauban unfortunately two of them have long sleeves but how they kind of like almost like uh you know a cell phone reception bar it's totally tallest to shortest this guy is much taller than me yeah yeah he's huge this guy on the right unfortunately is that but anyway you look at this guy go back okay the important element is the short guy okay what about him it's an element that i didn't see in some of the b-roll head he's got the flat top and that's really important all right you get you get the hair growing like this and you go yeah that's quite popular it's quite popular yeah but these guys decent wild anesthetic overalls group will give them by the way for those of you who are wondering this i shot in hua jian bay which is a very like it's cutting edge it's the silicon valley of china type thing it's in shenzhen first tier city and this is 2019. so we're talking about recent fashion it's not like we're going back in the afternoon well i mean aesthetic has been there since i moved yes till i left it's not going away no if yeah it's the ccp look yeah it's the power look like you said power dressing oh we got a dancing loud bun this is great why don't you explain this one i love this one well you know what happens is when you go to the this is something i loved about china by the way is if you go to any park um especially at night you'll see people go there after work and they just do different kinds of dancing yeah and it's usually salsa or it's some kind of square dawn so they do all this they do all sorts of kind of dancing yeah sometimes they just do like random ass stuff like what this gets me pumped up remember our friend gary came yeah and um it was actually exactly where this lavon is and he went downstairs he's allowed an age yeah so he joined in he would have a couple drinks he joined in he actually like ripped his tendon or whatever we had to put him on a bike and wheel him to a taxi and all that anyway fact of the matter is um here we go to lauban dancing but i think the fun part about this is his shoes yeah it's important that some elements never match yeah it's very important at least he's trying to be hip like oh i love this guy and he's actually kind of almost wearing a lavan shirt with army surplus vibes yeah big time he's got the keys he's got the keys jangling he's got the belt i love this guy yeah he exudes like he had like all the moves dude he's gonna put him back up yeah he deserves a little bit more i i gotta tell you something okay there's a lot of controversy over these um dancing things right because i was speaking to some uh some some really chinese relatives of mine and there was a scandal um where like some uncle used to go to these parks to hook up with the eyes and that's kind of like they were good yeah the old lady said like basically what happens is they go to these parks to cheat on each other and do stuff the old people they go there to like meet to meet people you know we love too but jesus is gross i know but it's just kind of hilarious yeah i thought it was really funny i wonder if this guy's doing a little fertile i mean think about it though no it's like it's it's like a social thing to do it's like you go hang out you meet people i don't know man i loved it i thought it was great i thought it was great energy and this is lava and energy i give this guy an eight and a half yeah now this is okay pause here that's the that's this the stand this is the stand now the guy's not got the alabama look he's got the evolution yeah and he's too he's too put together yeah but he's got the perfect is that not the perfect ccp stance stance nope stand around you could have a cigarette have something else yeah you know dismissive yeah exactly that's it i don't care about anything you peasants it's like that yeah he's just standing there i don't need to move my arm somebody else will do that for me no yeah this can we explain that the what is the opposite of the lava look it's kind of the beijing bikini gangster look it's like a heisha huay look yeah which means mafia yeah gang like well called the mafia look yeah yeah ganks maybe gangster look yeah thugs yeah thug look yeah um and this happens a lot in the south specifically because it's so hot there yeah this guy's probably a northerner though yeah the thing is when you go down south you'll see this whenever it's really really hot people roll up their shirts yeah you know a certain type of person to show off their belly to cool down yeah which is bizarre it's a chinese medicine thing yeah yeah you know why not just take the shirt off if you really wanna because you gotta you gotta show your epic love launcher yeah now this is the polar opposite and again can you pause it real quick you get this kind of like splotchy pattern and it's usually colorless that's how you show your rebellion sure these guys a lot of times will be skinheads they'll have this crazy haircut type stuff and they have the kind of chubby gangsters kind of like chinese ox chinese if he was down south he'd be you know it's the opposite of the ccp look in that they're not put together like i don't give a [ __ ] like i'll mess you up they get all in your face that's kind of you know so the ccp look lauban guys they're trying to get respect yes because power like they want respect from people because they want people to think that they're connected yes these guys want respect because they want people to think they're yeah out of fear it's well said so it's a different so it's literally a posing thing yeah yeah yeah but they're both like kind of larping as being powerful yeah um so i just want to show you that's and this is oh yeah here we are mixed with the their friends yeah they're friends and the lava together yeah right yeah there they are we have this guy here he's got the you know the classic beige deposit right there look at that beijing bikini exposing the belly cooling down yeah this guy going for the power lauban look tucked in polo he had the keys you can see his keyboard keys that's why i thought it was great yeah yeah yeah you know that's a great bond and uh mafia thug look yeah um both these guys will be neither of those things no no i mean i i took this footage down in the village urban village near where i used to live very low income yeah hanging around there sure just like me uh now i want to throw this guy in here okay this is a great shot you got here of a the mao hair look oh you got the mao hair he's got the pants he's got the belt he's got keys he's got keys he got the bag and he's got a freaking lavan shirt tucked in and the mao hair the mountain that's beautiful yeah he's a top top of his game that's a nine yeah easily this is now there we go there's a 10 out of 10. i mean that's just a loud bond yeah 10 out of 10 yeah he's got the shirt he's got the phone he's got the belt he's got the swagger that's right he's attacking the [ __ ] out of denver beautiful this guy's also i this guy's a little uh no he's got the pants height yeah he's he's doing it but you know i think he's a bit drab we're talking about the crab yeah he needs some color he needs a splash of color in there yeah you're absolutely correct uh but yeah too too black it's almost like he's living in black and white here yeah he's got the keys he's got a bag he's got the lavon shirt it's tucked into his lob on pants which are swimming on the bottom yeah yeah they got like way too wide yeah that's right they have they're not tapered no uh and yeah but he's too he's just too drab he's too drab he needs a splash of color in there like a muted green a little blue yeah a little muted pink yeah it's got to be something like that this guy yeah what's going on with this okay can we just look at this for a second yeah this guy on the right i want you guys to look is the example of neither of those this guy is awesome yeah he doesn't give a [ __ ] no he doesn't care about anything this guy is wearing dress shoes yeah okay let's let's take a look at that he's wearing dress shoes with rolled up socks right not rolled up like pulled up like pulled up socks okay um he's got anime bathing suits knee-length shorts like swimming shorts yeah it's a bait definitely swimsuit and he's breastfeeding a baby is this guy not a chad yeah i don't think i've ever could i mean i filmed this right yeah but i can't remember i mean that's incredible yeah this guy is incredible yeah bucks the system of everything yeah he certainly does he doesn't think he's a loud ban no he's probably some sort of he's got he's got lavan elements with his shoes and socks yeah but he's strong as f you know what i gotta say about bonds they are not in good shape no they're like the the opposite of good shape right in fact i think on purpose they try to be in bad shape to show that they don't have to do any physical effort pinky yeah pinky nail grown out it's in their ear with it this guy is elegant this guy's amazing he's strong yeah he's fit he can breastfeed he can't i mean i don't know what he's what's going on there he's taking a stroll through the cbd yeah of the first tier city i i filmed this right outside the a aeon you know what i'm talking about that yeah that's right there in the center of shenzhen in like the best like the rituals city yeah it's in one of the nicest areas yeah um i love that man yeah he's awesome and he doesn't even look at you doesn't give you a glance he's like i don't care i got my baby here i'm gonna enjoy my night absolutely it's freaking ridiculous i want i want to give him a name because i feel like he should be part of adv lore but i don't want a name i want you guys to think of an awesome name because we have chinese ox obviously yeah yeah someone else someone has to think of something yeah we can have like you know someone we can have a low bond character but this guy needs to be something he's amazing you

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