Singaporean Tai-tais

Ok, let’s face it.  If you need to take a test to find out if you are a taitai or not, you are definitely not one.  It will be quite obvious to you and everyone else if you are a woman of leisure.  However, if you are new to the socialite world and not born into a rich family, then you may have a hard time recognising and perhaps even vehemently denying your tai-tai status.

Un/fortunately (depending on your perspective), most people won’t let you get away with being a tai-tai without some sort of branding (like a cow being branded or for the more literary, getting a scarlet letter “A” knitted on your forehead :).  Essentially, people will / should be saying things behind your back. Now, it’s difficult to overhear conversations that are out of ear shot, but you will get these jibes to your face in subtle ways.

Many times people will tell you you have such, “hao ming / ho mia” and proceed to iterate all the ways in which your life is good and forget about all the bad aspects that comes with the territory (such as it’s very difficult to be the wife of a multi-millionaire who is always busy and always needing to entertain guests).

I guess what I should post about in the future are the different levels of taitaidom as well as the differences from country to country.  A Singapore taitai who is a westerner will not be as wealthy, for example, as a Singaporean taitai born with money.  However, that same western bred taitai will be much wealthier (on average, let’s not include the filthy rich billionaires which have their own category) than their Chinese taitai counterparts in Shanghai or Beijing.