Bought a bunch of clothes whilst in Japan, but I haven’t photographed it all, ‘cos too lazy and it’s not that interesting anyway 😛 But here’s some, because it’s quite typical of Japanese fashion (which, really, is just super-short skirts to show off your legs).. I bought the stuff below ‘cos it was all just so cute, and very reasonably priced!
And… well, I also bought ’em because I felt so horrendously daggy and ginormous amongst the hot little Japanese girls everywhere. So I felt compelled to buy their cute clothes – to try and tap their awesome fashion energy 😛
A shimmery soft dress in mint-green and white. Baggy, so very comfortable!
Closer-up pic
LOVE this military-style winter jacket. It’s super thick and warm.
A super-thin and soft dress
Floaty Alannah-Hill-style patchwork dress
I really love the first dress!!
Whee thanks hon! It will be a nice dress for summer.. 🙂
I really love the first dress!!
Whee thanks hon! It will be a nice dress for summer.. 🙂
Gorgeous dresses!!!! I love mini dresses too, always so cute and look best on shorties like us 😛 (Not that you are as short as me…) I especially love the mint green number, I would totally wear it!
Anyway, if it makes you feel better, the reason why the Japanese girls you saw were so hot can all be attributed to their totally amazing makeup/hairdo skills!!! I look at a lot of Japanese magazines, and they always do ‘before’ and ‘after’ shots of girls before makeup. And yes, they always look like a completely transformed person with makeup and were never that good looking without! (Which is why I guess Japanese makeup is so fantastic and natural looking, since they all need so much of it :P) But you’re different because you still look like you with or without makeup, and so you are NATURALLY gorgeous and don’t need any help to look as good as you do 🙂
Also, the hot/good makeup girls are generally all in Tokyo. When you travel further out or to smaller towns, you’ll notice that girls are not as meticulously made up/dressed up, and hence they don’t look that great 😛
YES I hear ya! I look better in short dresses/skirts cos it doesn’t make me look as woefully short, hee.
And you’re right.. they have some amazing skills with hair and makeup, we have a lot to learn from them. THanks for your nice words though, hehe!
Hi, a bit random kinda comment. What is the Panasonic camera model you are using? It looks good plus the shots you took look great!
Lumix LX3 🙂
Oh they have it in white?
no idea..
Gorgeous dresses!!!! I love mini dresses too, always so cute and look best on shorties like us 😛 (Not that you are as short as me…) I especially love the mint green number, I would totally wear it!
Anyway, if it makes you feel better, the reason why the Japanese girls you saw were so hot can all be attributed to their totally amazing makeup/hairdo skills!!! I look at a lot of Japanese magazines, and they always do ‘before’ and ‘after’ shots of girls before makeup. And yes, they always look like a completely transformed person with makeup and were never that good looking without! (Which is why I guess Japanese makeup is so fantastic and natural looking, since they all need so much of it :P) But you’re different because you still look like you with or without makeup, and so you are NATURALLY gorgeous and don’t need any help to look as good as you do 🙂
Also, the hot/good makeup girls are generally all in Tokyo. When you travel further out or to smaller towns, you’ll notice that girls are not as meticulously made up/dressed up, and hence they don’t look that great 😛
YES I hear ya! I look better in short dresses/skirts cos it doesn’t make me look as woefully short, hee.
And you’re right.. they have some amazing skills with hair and makeup, we have a lot to learn from them. THanks for your nice words though, hehe!
Hi, a bit random kinda comment. What is the Panasonic camera model you are using? It looks good plus the shots you took look great!
Lumix LX3 🙂
Oh they have it in white?
no idea..
It’s not fair 🙁 You eat a tonne but you’re still sooooooo SLIM! *wails*
😛
The dresses do look so pretty on you but they are indeed very short!
Not as slim as the little Japanese girls tho! They are so tiny it’s just incredible.. inspiring too, now I feel like going exercising 😛
ooooooo so short! but you carry it off well, so that’s cool 🙂 I love the way the white dress fall on you….nice 🙂
Oh thank ya! But yeah, the Japanese girls are famous for super short skirts.. 😛
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Wow! Cute clothes! But when I go to Japan (unknown when, but I’m desperate to go) I’m sure I will feel like a giant cow, especially since I already feel that way in China. (I’m a petite, smaller than average American girl, but still huge compared to chic Asians…) This is my first comment on your blog although I have been reading it for a few days now. I’ve been stuck up in Shandong Province for 3 years in a terribly unfashionable small city and hoping and praying that my husband gets a job in Shanghai, which is why I started reading your blog! I love Japanese Fashion and religiously browse through Japanese fashion magazines, many of which are available at the LJ community jmagazinescans: http://community.livejournal.com/jmagazinescans/
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Hi hon, how fun that you’re in China too! Hope you come to live in Shanghai soon.. hehe.. it’s a lot more fun 😛
Man those Japanese magazines make me depressed.. I reckon they photoshop less than Western mags too!
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My least favorite part of Japanese magazines are the diet and weight loss sections at the back – all these photos of girls who have lost weight. They are so tiny! But I do love the food pictures, especially the Bento box examples. So cute!
This is weird, but the reason I like many of the Japanese fashion magazines is because the models are all the same height as or shorter than me. For some reason the perspective appeals to me. I can’t relate to clothing modeled on the Amazonian models in Vogue, Elle, etc. because I am so much shorter! Weird, I know, cuz my body really is nothing like a Japanese model’s either!
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Cripes, I don’t want to see those before/after weight loss pics.. way too depressing 😛
I love pics of bento boxes too, they take so much effort!
I love your black boots! Are they also from Japan?
They’re Italian calfskin leather boots.. so nah, not from Japan. None of the shoes are, actually! 🙂
It’s not fair 🙁 You eat a tonne but you’re still sooooooo SLIM! *wails*
😛
The dresses do look so pretty on you but they are indeed very short!
Not as slim as the little Japanese girls tho! They are so tiny it’s just incredible.. inspiring too, now I feel like going exercising 😛
ooooooo so short! but you carry it off well, so that’s cool 🙂 I love the way the white dress fall on you….nice 🙂
Oh thank ya! But yeah, the Japanese girls are famous for super short skirts.. 😛
Really cute clothes. I like the military jacket and the green floral dress.
The jacket has come in VERY handy since it’s just freezing here at the moment.. so it was a v justified purchase 😉
Oh yeah, I also wanted to say I think you’re the perfect size already. The trend of being super skinny in Asia is frankly not that attractive nor womanly. Sometimes, they look emaciated and that’s really not good looking. Some meat is much sexier and healthy looking!
Really nice! I love the striped dress; I have something similar but black, with a v-neck and is tighter at the bottom (yeah so maybe a little different hehe).
Btw, I think Japanese girls really just have the most amazing makeup and they’re exceptionally good at applying makeup. They’re very particular!
Your black one sounds so chic, bet it looks awesome on 🙂
I do like the very thin look that many Japanese girls have.. partly cos they’re all so pretty with nice hair/makeup too, hehe!
Very cute (and sexy at the same time)!!
Haha true, the fashion there is a lot like that!
They are all very nice but with your figure everything looks nice on you. 🙂
Aww thanks! But you should’ve seen the petite Japanese girls dress like that.. very impressive 🙂
I think you look beautiful! And those are great dresses. Honestly, I can’t see how “ginormous” you are–when you write things like that, I end up feeling terrible about MYself, because I’m nowhere near as svelte as you! But I guess everyone’s self-perception is different. Anyway, your adventures in Japan have been really fun to follow–I hope to be able to go there someday!
Compared to the gorgeous and *tiny* Japanese girls, I think everyone feels pretty giant sized! They definitely do eat, so I reckon they just have amazing genes or something, lucky ducks 🙂
All screams NICEE! My personal fav-patchwork dress!!
I just HAD to get that cos it was so Alannah Hill.. heh!
Hi from new reader
Wow! Cute clothes! But when I go to Japan (unknown when, but I’m desperate to go) I’m sure I will feel like a giant cow, especially since I already feel that way in China. (I’m a petite, smaller than average American girl, but still huge compared to chic Asians…) This is my first comment on your blog although I have been reading it for a few days now. I’ve been stuck up in Shandong Province for 3 years in a terribly unfashionable small city and hoping and praying that my husband gets a job in Shanghai, which is why I started reading your blog! I love Japanese Fashion and religiously browse through Japanese fashion magazines, many of which are available at the LJ community jmagazinescans: http://community.livejournal.com/jmagazinescans/
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Hi hon, how fun that you’re in China too! Hope you come to live in Shanghai soon.. hehe.. it’s a lot more fun 😛
Man those Japanese magazines make me depressed.. I reckon they photoshop less than Western mags too!
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My least favorite part of Japanese magazines are the diet and weight loss sections at the back – all these photos of girls who have lost weight. They are so tiny! But I do love the food pictures, especially the Bento box examples. So cute!
This is weird, but the reason I like many of the Japanese fashion magazines is because the models are all the same height as or shorter than me. For some reason the perspective appeals to me. I can’t relate to clothing modeled on the Amazonian models in Vogue, Elle, etc. because I am so much shorter! Weird, I know, cuz my body really is nothing like a Japanese model’s either!
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Cripes, I don’t want to see those before/after weight loss pics.. way too depressing 😛
I love pics of bento boxes too, they take so much effort!
I love your black boots! Are they also from Japan?
They’re Italian calfskin leather boots.. so nah, not from Japan. None of the shoes are, actually! 🙂
Really cute clothes. I like the military jacket and the green floral dress.
The jacket has come in VERY handy since it’s just freezing here at the moment.. so it was a v justified purchase 😉
Oh yeah, I also wanted to say I think you’re the perfect size already. The trend of being super skinny in Asia is frankly not that attractive nor womanly. Sometimes, they look emaciated and that’s really not good looking. Some meat is much sexier and healthy looking!
Really nice! I love the striped dress; I have something similar but black, with a v-neck and is tighter at the bottom (yeah so maybe a little different hehe).
Btw, I think Japanese girls really just have the most amazing makeup and they’re exceptionally good at applying makeup. They’re very particular!
Your black one sounds so chic, bet it looks awesome on 🙂
I do like the very thin look that many Japanese girls have.. partly cos they’re all so pretty with nice hair/makeup too, hehe!
Very cute (and sexy at the same time)!!
Haha true, the fashion there is a lot like that!
They are all very nice but with your figure everything looks nice on you. 🙂
Aww thanks! But you should’ve seen the petite Japanese girls dress like that.. very impressive 🙂
I think you look beautiful! And those are great dresses. Honestly, I can’t see how “ginormous” you are–when you write things like that, I end up feeling terrible about MYself, because I’m nowhere near as svelte as you! But I guess everyone’s self-perception is different. Anyway, your adventures in Japan have been really fun to follow–I hope to be able to go there someday!
Compared to the gorgeous and *tiny* Japanese girls, I think everyone feels pretty giant sized! They definitely do eat, so I reckon they just have amazing genes or something, lucky ducks 🙂
All screams NICEE! My personal fav-patchwork dress!!
I just HAD to get that cos it was so Alannah Hill.. heh!