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-rings are single brass coils, added on with age

-The first coil is applied when the girl is five years old and with the growing is replaced by a longer coil. -The length of the coil and the added weight presses the clavicle and the rib cage, resulting in the appearance of a very long neck. In fact, the neck does not get longer, this is impossible.

- There are many myths of why these brass coils are placed on their necks. Some are that the coils may have made Kayan women unattractive to slave trade. Some say that the coils are against tiger bite. More likely, it reflects the neck of a dragon. .For the Kayan women, the coils confer them a tribal identity, associated with beauty. In fact, the coils ensure that Kayan women will marry only inside their own tribe.

-Many thought that unfaithful women got, as a punishment, their coils removed, which led to their suffocation because their neck broke, but this is nonsense. Many women removed the coils when they felt it as obsolete or for medical examinations.

-But most women prefer to wear the rings once their neck are elongated, because the skin portion kept so many years under the brass is often bruised and discolored. And many, after ten years or more of continuous wear, feel the collar like an integral part of the body. Kayan women wear coils also around their knees, ankles and wrists, but this will never capture the attention of the foreigners.

- hair styles are all different

-women wore their hair in a bundle at the top of their head held together with sticks. their hair was long and they wore flowers in their hair

-long necks - term signifying the practice of adorning their women with brass rings around the neck

- also wear brass coils and rings around their arms and legs; this signifies beauty

-neck rings reach from the clavicle to beneath the chin- these coils hold very tightly around those bone structures

-by the time women are all grown up, and middle aged, it is ideal to have about 37 coils around their neck

-rings on arms and legs do not stand out as much as the coils around their necks, but they are just as important

-rings on arms wore from wrist to elbow

-rings on legs wore from ankles to knees

works cited- chiangmai-chiangrai.com works-cited Antei, Stefan. "The "Giraffe" Women of the Neck Rings." __news.softpedia.com.__ 7 Oct. 2006. 17 Mar. 2009. .  ideas for thesis statement: The Padaung Tribe of Burma has many unique ideas of beauty compared to the rest of the world. The Padaung Tribe of Burma has many different forms of beauty in their perspective.

-on their head and around their neck coils, they like to pin or add on colorful pieces of fabric or silk

-essentially for their fashion, on a normal day they would wear a white t-shirt and black or army green-colored pants

-they do like to wear colorful sashes, scarves, or shawls around their body as well

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