Blackface or a clever marketing campaign? Imagine a female minstrel show with svelte legs and you might have the right image of this Astigu, a Japanese tights brand. The ads feature 11 ...
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These are guaranteed to be a hit at any bachelor party! The Mousou Mapping Bra T-Shirt are a series of tees with a difference. Their fronts are decorated with the object of every man's daydreams ...
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Girls with guns? Sounds like a cheap porno but this is actually a minor fashion craze right now, thanks to SG-Fashion-Snap.com, which is collating images of male and female participants in Airsoft ...
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Leading fashion magazine CanCam has been going for over thirty years and now it has finally got itself its own exclusive male model. After launching the careers and seeing immense success in the ...
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Thank God for hipsters. When all else fails and the media is amok with already notorious reports (supported by dubious stats) that Japanese people apparently no longer have sex, you can always at ...
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Japanese fashion retailing giant UNIQLO launched a new digital tool on October 1st. UNIQLO HairDo uses Pinterest to offer people a way to share examples of hair styles coordinated with UNIQLO's ...
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One of those myths about Japan is the used panties vending machine. Well, these blogger at least has heard of genuine panty vending machines (at least the machines were real, though we can't vouch ...
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Japan's netizens are reacting with customary venom to the images of lackadaisical youngsters wearing their clothes like traditional sashes, which may or may not be the latest fashion trend about to ...
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On July 12th visitors to Yoyogi Park may have spotted some clothes that had been left in the hedges and foliage like garbage. But far from being discarded items of apparel by profligate Tokyoites, ...
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And the award for July's cutest use of augmented reality mobile interaction goes to Dentsu, for this Asoberu T-Shirt ("Playable T-Shirt"). It works with a dedicated phone app to allow you to ...
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Japan's largest retailer Aeon is offering yukata (cotton summer kimono) this year with peach and soap fragrances. Part of its new "adult kawaii" range of hundreds of summer items, the yukata ...
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GU (pronounced "gee-you" -- a play on jiyu, meaning "free") is the off-shoot of UNIQLO that is even cheaper and even more casual. GU branches have been popping up around major city centers ...
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Following the Tohoku disaster in March 2011, we've all thought much more about the kind of tools and clothes that we need when society as we know it breaks down. From flashlights to emergency ...
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For its latest concept bra to announce its new range, Triumph has come up with the Branomics Bra. Yes, you've guessed it. This is a reference to Prime Minister Abe's "Abenomics", the fiscal ...
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Over the weekend I was lucky enough to be offered a free ticket to the "Kawaii!! Matsuri". What is the "Kawaii!! Matsuri?" Well, it literally translates as "Cute!! Festival". And that is exactly what ...
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