![]() ![]() When I got back though, none of that worked in tropical, laid-back Brazil – so I cut my hair, sold most of my wardrobe and was sorta muddling through in dumb polos and clubmasters. ![]() I had reached my zenith a few years earlier when I was in Japan living the life, with long chemically straightened hair and ballin’ outfits from h.NAOTO and Black Peace Now. ![]() I joined Harajuju in 2011, at what was probably the nadir of my fashion existence. Rather than write a long drawn-out goodbye, I’ll leave you with this note from longtime contributor and friend which was posted on the site a day before it went dark. We will also officially stop updating this Tumblr. , our online Japanese fashion community, closed its doors today. They’re unwieldy, they don’t flatter the shape of the leg at all, and also, your jingling annoys everyone. I assume they are designed by pulling miscellaneous mall-goth design attributes out of a hat. ![]() They are simply unflattering, poorly constructed clothes. If you look at actual Japanese clothing websites, you’ll see this stuff is pretty much non-existent.Īnd let’s disregard the visual-kei association for a moment, because if the GazettE started wearing these pants tomorrow they would still be just as bad. All they want to do is cash in on the Japanese style craze none of what they are peddling is legitimate. This sort of stuff has been proliferated by eBay sellers as being some sort of Japanese trend. If you’re buying any “Japanese-style” “visual-kei” or whatever clothes off eBay, stop it now (unless they are legit Japanese brands). If you think these are visual kei, you have not seen what a visual-kei band looks like since the early 1990’s. I will say this as someone who wore these roughly five years ago: they are awful. I’ve seen more than a handful of misguided visual-kei fans wearing stuff like this. ![]()
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