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Post by Duvet on Oct 16, 2008 22:11:11 GMT -5
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Post by hellomeow on Oct 17, 2008 3:38:56 GMT -5
Dude, that's not even a weird part of Japan. Go to Harajuku on Sunday.
I went to Harajuku on Sunday, and I ended up getting drunk with some nigger; before that I got a trip around the area guided by a shoe salesman, listened to remixed Joe Hiraishi music in a store for gothic-lolita clothing, watched a bunch of street dancers, went to the biggest bookstore I've ever been to in my life, played Space Invaders on a screen so large it took up one quarter of a block, and then at the end I ran into this guy wearing really tight green spandex and about 5 cameras who was hiding behind a garbage can and taking pictures of young women. He hit on my sister and bunch of times and hugged all of us.
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Post by Tex-Mex Alex A. Dex on Oct 30, 2008 0:19:31 GMT -5
You can find all that in London when you look hard enough. That is all superficially strange. You want to find a truely unique experience, you have to dig deep into Japan. Find some harukuju lolitas, and ask them about their most hardcore lolita friend, and have her show you the best places to go (or any such chain), then you'll find areas so strange, they make anywhere in new york, london, or tourist attraction tokyo look normal.
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Post by hellomeow on Oct 31, 2008 3:48:04 GMT -5
rofl, I didn't get guided around by a gothic lolita girl, but while in Harajuku I did visit one of those gothic lolita clothing shops which had some pretty interesting looking clothes and also some pretty shitty music. This incident stuck out to me because I was going to photo some of the clothing there, when the gothic lolita girl with pale white make up and a crapload of chains and tight, black leather clothing all over her immediately became alarmed and started crying out, "No Piku-cha! No Piku-cha!" which basically made me start laughing in the store, but I complied. I should get a tour around from a gothic lolita in Harajuku the next time I go there, although the shoe salesman guy was pretty cool; spoke pretty fluent English for most of the Japanese I encountered and he was only 21.
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Post by Tex-Mex Alex A. Dex on Nov 13, 2008 0:10:45 GMT -5
Why were you trying to take picture of art without asking permission first?
I consider Harajuku way overrated for wierdness. Sure it is a bunch of people dressing up differently, but it is done by so many people that it doesn't mean that any given individual is wierd. Also it is all astetics, and some of the wierdest people you'd never be able to tell by their astetics (though you can find them through asteticly wierd people if you dig deep enough).
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Post by Duvet on Nov 14, 2008 0:55:34 GMT -5
I actually find Japanese fashion pretty cool. Not very weird at all but rather intriguing. I wouldn't mind living in Japan and actually following trends there (which would be completely absurd since I don't follow trends related to fashion and the like. I just dress casually and wear whatever). P.S. I consider Harajuku way overrated for wierdness. Sure it is a bunch of people dressing up differently, but it is done by so many people that it doesn't mean that any given individual is wierd. Also it is all astetics, and some of the wierdest people you'd never be able to tell by their astetics (though you can find them through asteticly wierd people if you dig deep enough). rofl |
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Post by solocityElectricCyan on Mar 6, 2009 21:41:00 GMT -5
ilu partick
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Post by elbow unit on Apr 7, 2009 21:37:43 GMT -5
So is the stereotype that Japanese people try to dress more american and us vice versa untrue?
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Post by hellomeow on Apr 8, 2009 6:42:10 GMT -5
So is the stereotype that Japanese people try to dress more american and us vice versa untrue? I would say that the demographic of North American citizens who try to dress like Japanese people is equal in magnitude per square acre to the amount of Japanese people who try to dress like North Americans. In Harajuku you see all the really expensive ass clothes stores, like Gucci, Louis Vuitton, etc. And Japanese people are extremely, extremely vain (their women make our women look like jokes in terms of how fucking obsessed with their appearance they are) and are willing to pay for that shit. |
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