The King Of Thailand Died And The Whole Country Mourned For A Year.

In September 14th, King Bhumibhol Adud of Thailand died at the age of 88.

According to Thailand FM91 traffic radio, Thai people flock to Thailand's largest clothing wholesale market, Pratunam, to buy.

It resulted in traffic jam at Uruphong intersection.

Phetchaburi Soi 21 stores were also very busy at noon that day, and some of the shops' black clothes, especially polo shirts, were soon sold out.

Thailand express delivery personnel are also black and white clothes, one usually sells 8 different colors.

The seller said he would buy more black shirts to meet the huge demand.

RattanaTima, which sells plain colored blouses at Platinum Fashion Mall on weekdays, has already put on some black clothes, priced from 250 to 990 baht, and said these clothes sell better than usual.

Some stores also say they do not sell other colors except white and black.

The shopkeeper, Wanida Tongprasertkul, sold a red jacket to a foreign tourist and said, "this is the only item that is not sold in black and white today."

Wanida usually sells only one style of black blouse, but in October 14th it sold more than 20-30 black shirts, from 150 baht T-shirts to 1000 baht Chiffon blouses.

She has retail customers and wholesale customers, and the demand for black clothes is higher than usual in recent days.

The government of Thailand announced that it mourned the death of the king for one year, and asked civil servants to wear mourning clothes during mourning, in which men wore white or black tops, and women wore black clothes.

Although there was no strict requirement for the public to wear mourning clothes, some companies also issued a statement requiring employees to wear mourning clothes during the mourning period.

However, the increase in demand for black clothing by Thailand consumers caused the retailer to raise the price of black clothes. This prompted the Central Committee of Thailand to issue a statement on products and service prices, and strictly prohibit sellers from raising the price of mourning clothes, and asking them to publicly display the price of commercial goods.

According to the Price of Goods and and Services Act, the seller who violates the regulations will be sentenced to less than seven years' imprisonment or fined under 140 thousand baht. If the seller does not sell the product at a price tag or not, he will face a penalty of 10 thousand baht below Thailand.

On the morning of October 14th, Tak, a 30 year old civil servant, passed the clothing store near Kasetsart University, Thailand, and saw that the price of the Polo shirt was 100 baht.

By noon the price had risen to 250-300 baht, and all the black, white and gray clothes were sold out.

The businessman told him to come back in October 17th and asked him if he wanted to make a reservation first.

Tak said, "the shopkeeper said that each purchase was restricted to 5 pieces due to goods being broken."

He said, "I object to raising the price of mourning during mourning, so I decided not to buy new ones.

I already have three white tops, and it will be very hot to wear black clothes every day. "

40 year old tailor PakornchaiSananthong went to Bangkok Suksawat area to buy black fabric, but he didn't get it.

He said, "I didn't make a reservation for the black fabric. Actually, I made a reservation for the yellow fabric, because December 5th is the king's birthday. Now I have to cancel the order."

Pakornchai also said he thought it was hard to get a lot of money from the king's death. He said, "I don't think this is very good. My family and I feel very sad, so we plan to close shop for a few days."