{"id":415,"date":"2007-09-19T05:58:41","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T13:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bbrace.laughingsquid.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/archives\/2007\/09\/19\/thailand-makes-fish-skin-bikinis\/"},"modified":"2007-09-19T05:58:41","modified_gmt":"2007-09-19T13:58:41","slug":"thailand-makes-fish-skin-bikinis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/?p=415","title":{"rendered":"Thailand makes fish-skin bikinis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fish-skin bikini is a new fashion trend in Thailand. Made out of tilapia skin, a waterproof bikini costs $75. Tilapia fish skin used to be sold for a few cents as a fried snack, but a few years ago its skin became well known in the leather market for its durability. A Thai leather vendor made a bikini from pieces of 15 fish stitched together. The fish skin, which now costs about $1.25, is dried and dyed. The bikini was unveiled at a fashion show, and tilapia skin is now used for handbags and shoes as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fish-skin bikini is a new fashion trend in Thailand. Made out of tilapia skin, a waterproof bikini costs $75. Tilapia fish skin used to be sold for a few cents as a fried snack, but a few years ago its skin became well known in the leather market for its durability. A Thai leather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","spay_email":""},"categories":[10,11,38],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}