Crackdown
In 2002, local governments in Taiwan started to impose laws or regulations covering the dress code of Pinang Xi Shi, prohibiting the wearing of over-revealing clothes. Taipei city was the first to initiate the change. This was then followed by Taoyuan county and metropolitan cities like Taichung, Tainan, and Kaohsiung, until Pinang Xi Shi all but disappeared. Nowadays they can only be found sporadically in the suburbs and around motorway interchanges. Even there, the clothes they wear are no longer so revealing.
Some Pinang Xi Shis are high school dropouts and their jobs represent the principal source of income for their families. Most have difficulty finding a job in a convenience store because they lack an educational qualification or because of age restriction; some choose to enter this profession for its higher pay.
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