I can't wear Japanese Street Style

It's quite common to find people in Japan standing in a bookshop reading all the magazines/books/mangas. Ususally when I'm waiting for friends, I like to pop into the nearest bookshop or supermarket and flick through the enormous variety of different fashion magazines Japan has up for offer. One of my favorites is Nippon Vogue, but unfortunately every month is so thick that it's impossible for me to bring all of them back to Australia. Other magazines I enjoy reading are Glitter, Gisele and Glamorous (I like to call them the 3 G's) which focuses more on celebrity style and street style from around the world. On the occasion I like to delve myself in a bit of Vivi, just to check out what the oshare girls in Shibuya are wearing, and of course there are the Gothic Lolita, Punk Rock and Alice in Wonderland style magazines which I also adore for the opulent costumes that can amalgamate with the streets of Tokyo but would never do so well in Sydney.

I've come across the magazine Zipper many times but the style of clothing in the magazine (very typical Japanese street style) has never interested me much. This month, however, the magazine came with a pair of fingerless Candy Stripper gloves. The brand Candy Stripper is a blends the Lolita and bubblegum rock look together. It's completely not my style yet it has gotten me hooked. Thus the gloves persuaded me to buy the magazine.

When I read through the magazine, I was actually pleasantly surprised by it's contents. Although I would never be able to wear whole outfits consisting of Japanese street style (eg. polka dotted footless stockings under a baggy white dress with black baggy suit jacket over the top, with three rows of a turquoise necklace and silver pointy flats) but there are a few pieces I would definitely like to add to my wardrobe. I do love to look and experiment with all styles and would really like to try this one out, except Japanese street style really requires a certain look. Generally you have to be small and quite cute (my friends like to say I'm the opposite of cute whenever I do a cute pose -_-;;) or cool looking in a boyish way. This is why the young people in Hong Kong have emulated this style so well (as well as adding bits and pieces of craziness of their own). Perhaps the main reason why this style won't work for me is... (click image to enlarge)


The fact that the tallest girl in this picture (far left) is still 13 centimetres shorter than me. I'd be like the giant girl in the oversized clothes. People would think I that I was participating in a postmodern exhibition of "Moving Moutains" in the Tokyo National Museum.

Oh well, at least the Gothic Lolita style can be worn by tall people... I think... wait... Lolita... bollocks >.<;;

These photos were taken at the beginning of this year by my lovely friend Cessi. For more please go to this post.

This month's Zipper magazine also featured a Vivienne Westwood special, and we all know that Vivienne Westwood is love, so I'm glad that I bought this month's issue and I can't wait until winter comes so I can wear those gloves. I like it how they're a little tacky looking, goes with the whole Japanese street style look. Can you imagine Anna Wintour wearing them? Haha.

Labels: Fashion, Japan Exchange, Vanity

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