Saturday, May 17, 2014

Fashion-consciousness of Japanese women

The “bijin-SNAP” is a website that has the photos of the common Japanese girls walking in the town.

The photos of young girls walking around the town are taken. What do you see as the special feature of the Japanese girls from that website?
You can see the fashion-conscious Japanese women walking in the town at this website.
There are lot of praised for the fashion-conscious Japanese women, and they are praised as “The Japanese women is feminine”, “I am anxious about the appearance of Japanese women” etc.
What is the special feature of the fashion of Japanese women compared with the foreign women?


One of the features of the fashion of Japan is the richness of the variety.
There are lot of girl’s fashion types like the Lovely, Beauty, Gal, Harajuku (old clothes) system, Princess, Lolita, and Gothic etc.
The fashion in the foreign countries also classify such genre, but it is not a clear-cut difference like Japan. The novel fashion like the Harajuku and Lolita etc. keeps the foreign country fashion system at a distance.
In the Japanese fashion, a lot of street fashion has arose spontaneously from young people who hang around the streets of Shibuya and Harajuku etc.
I think that there are lot of types of fashion compared to the foreign countries because the trend has the origin of street fashion.
The Japanese fashion has the richness in variety, and there are lot of items valued as “Loveliness” in Japan when compared with the foreign countries as an overall impression.
There are lot of dresses made from the material used for girl child like the lace and frill, and there is also a rich variety of lovely designer items like the bag and shoes.


On the contrary, in the European countries like France, the dress of lovely fashion are less, and there are lot of simple dresses that are stylish and cool.
It is possible to see how the Japanese women want to be seen in the society by the appearance and disappearance of the Western-style clothes that is being sold,
A Japanese woman always want to be young and lovely, and like to be a woman that the men would always protect and abide by the rules.
In fashion, the softness is expressed by the light and airy like a girl child, and a woman makes out so that the man is pleased.


One of the things often said about the Japanese women by the foreign women is that the Japanese women are heavily clothed. Surely the heavily clothed style like T-shirt x Ron T could not be seen in the foreign countries.

The color usage is obviously different between the Japanese and foreign fashion.
First, there are lot of relatively striking colors like the deep red, deep blue, and fluorescent color, which can be felt just by seeing the western style clothes in the apparel shop.
Conversely, in Japan, there are lot of items in white, black, navy blue, beige etc. that match with the skin color of the Japanese, and can easily matched with any dress.
In the foreign countries, the style of having one color for the entire body like the whole body white, whole body black etc. can be seen, but this cannot be seen much in Japan.


One of the characteristics of the Japanese woman is spending time in make-up and hair set. In this respect, the Japanese women clearly differ from other Asian woman.
The American women and French women will be just combing their hair every morning, and they do the hair using curling tongs and rolling up like the Japanese women, only during special occasions like the parties.
The time-consuming arrangement of hair is not a rare event, and there is no limit as well unlike the foreign women having the natural and good-looking loose wave after final washing of the hair. The hairstyle set of the Japanese women is skillful, and they make a perfect form like coming out of the hair catalog, while being an amateur.
This is same even in the make-up, and compared to the foreign women, the Japanese women are absorbed in the eye make-up such as false eyelashes.
When comparing the Japanese woman with high interest in hair make-up, the impression of the foreign women is just simple.


The biggest difference in that the esthetic sensation of Japanese women and foreigner women is the perception of “Sexiness”
A foreign women highly regards the “Sexiness” to be seen as the sexual object by the man, and saying a woman as “Sexy woman” is the biggest compliment
Conversely, a Japanese women generally does not prefer the sexy part, and rather the trend is to conceal it. The concept of not showing in the surface might be present within.

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