Cute clobber for Japan’s disturbing number of diminutive dogs is now customary, but for the canine who really wants to be cool, sunglasses it would seem,
are simply essential.
Japanese canine cool?
Fashion
Kimonos and the cold
With the option to add what looks to be a considerable amount of colour co-ordinated layers, the kimono seems comfortable enough in the cold.
However, on days when one would expect it to be getting warmer not way more wintery, a parka may be more preferable,
although if nothing else, this kimono at least has a pattern that matches the decidedly un-March-like miserableness.
Nice and noticeable Japanese nipples
Considering that it’s now winter in Tokyo and so not exactly warm, one could be forgiven for thinking that nipple enhancers are be a bit unnecessary — if indeed they are warranted whatever the weather.
However, that apparently isn’t the case, as these plastic protrusions have now gone from a mere fashion fad,
to a feisty, pheromone infusing feature.
A product that, at least according to the packaging, is big in America.
Presumably quite literally.
(click images for full-sized pheromones)
Japanese schoolgirls and scarves
Japanese high school girls are often described as a driving force for new fashion and, if indeed this is still the case, then checked scarves would once again seem to be essential this season.
But, while simply following this admittedly far from new fashion is the main focus for most, great care has to be taken, at least if one is to come across as cool, in coming up with a colour that is in contrast to the one already picked out by a peer.
Apparently.
(click images mega-sized mufflers)
Worn Japanese wigs
An unscientific but still somewhat assiduous study of the bouffants boasted by most Japanese men would almost certainly suggest that baldness isn’t as big a blight on the nation’s blokes as it is back in my native Britain.
Or there again maybe, just maybe, wigs are a well used but equally well kept secret, with a rug being as readily donned as a raincoat. However, while that is very much open to debate, what isn’t is that just like the latter, wigs do wear, and this poor fella’s equally poor hairpiece,
is possibly now about as hirsute as his head.
(click images for super-sized syrup)