Lowe continues on to discuss the concepts of nationhood and class - the woman representing both the new nation and the peasant class her clothing being that of a farm worker and not the traditional ao dai typically used to portray Vietnamese women. It will be shown in the following chapters, where the the visual material is analysed. that very few posters of this period produced by the Viet Minh use this device, I think that this is because the producers of the Viet Minh propaganda are much more concerned with building and portraying community (or, as Neil Jamieson puts it, communitas). This point is discussed further in the following chapters.