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Dec 29 2008 5 Comments

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,

Japanese wig

is possibly now about as hirsute as his head.

Japanese wig

(click images for super-sized syrup)

Categorized: Fashion

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  1. Desmond_P says

    12/29/2008 at 7:37 pm

    Thats one well defined parting!

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  2. Hachi says

    12/30/2008 at 4:20 am

    Hey, maybe it’s not a wig but his actual hair and he has a battle scar there? You never know with japanese middle aged men…

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  3. Eric says

    12/30/2008 at 8:41 am

    Every time, EVERY SINGLE TIME, that someone calls a toupee a “syrup” I crack up. Thanks for the laugh!

    Do you read Viz?

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  4. Lee says

    12/30/2008 at 11:22 am

    Glad it made you laugh Eric. I haven’t read Viz for years now, but I used to be an avid reader. In the days when it was good!

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  5. Eric says

    1/1/2009 at 3:13 am

    Of course Viz is “not as funny as it used to be” ® but it still beats most anything else. They’ve stopped spotting syrups, but the profanisaurus alone is worth the cover price.

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