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Sep 02 2008 2 Comments

Extreme Japanese embroidery?

In ferociously fashion conscious Japan, or indeed anywhere else for that matter, having a jacket or one’s jumper emblazoned with a badge or a bit of embroidery is far from fetching, let alone fashionable.

Still, men of a certain age and persuasion do have a decidedly perplexing penchant for such panderings, which presumably accounts for the existence of this establishment, where patrons can happily purchase the likes of polices badges,

Japanese nazi?

and mock security symbols.

Japanese nazi?

Or, for something a bit more sinister, a swastika.

Japanese nazi?

(click image for full-sized fascism-based fashion)

Categorized: Odd, Photography

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  1. robashito says

    9/4/2008 at 1:20 am

    Yikes! Obvioulsy in poor taste. It’s like the few Americans who sport the Japanese battle flag – thinking it’s cool or something.

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  2. A German says

    9/5/2008 at 9:44 pm

    What’s almost stranger is the one that reads “100 Jahre Tangermünder Angelclub”, which translate as “100 years of fishing club Tangermünde”. I have to add that Tangermünde is a very small city (not even 10.000 citizens) in the northeastern part of Germany (ex- GDR). I mean, what the…

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