Kaohsiung commerce

Wedding dresses

... more weddings dresses ... and scooters

... more wedding dresses ... and more scooters 

... and even more wedding dresses!

Yes, it seems on every street corner on the main thoroughfare in Kaohsiung there is a wedding dress shop. When I say shop I actually mean a department store on four floors or more, filled with what appear to be wedding dresses. I could sort of just about understand that in a western Christianized society, but in Taiwan? A country that is mainly Buddhist or Daoist. This is a complete mystery to me, but then weddings always were ...