J-Fashion: "Modest" & "Absent of Sexiness

[Mulboyne]

Chron.com: Japanese chic - From couture to geisha glam, Tokyo trends are reaching the U.S.
...There is undeniably a Western affinity for everything Japanese -- sushi, karaoke, anime, Hello Kitty and Harajuku...At every turn, Japanese styles are making their way here...etc...etc... Born and raised in Tokyo, [Ayumu] Sugawara moved to Houston with her family nearly eight years ago. She studied fashion design at New York's Parsons School of Design ...Sugawara says Japanese fashion, particularly in Tokyo, is more modest than its American counterpart. The clothes are noticeably absent of sexiness and typically worn in layers...more...

[Taro Toporific]

...Sugawara says Japanese fashion, particularly in Tokyo, is more modest than its American counterpart. The clothes are noticeably absent of sexiness and typically worn in layers...more...

A Home Away from Familiar
From new greetings to casual sex, female international students adjust to life at UCSD
UCSD Guardian Online, Tuesday, 22 November 2005
....Erika Oba, a Japanese student from the University of Tsukuba, explained that the way American students tease each other shocked her. To her, some of their jokes seemed overly frank and hurtful, and she had to struggle not to take them seriously. Though she's used to a less direct style of communication...
...Oba's university, by contrast, is in a scientific, contemporary city, where male and female students are integrated, and even live together. However, Japanese women would never hug their male friends, nor would they dress with an exposed chest or shoulders.....

[Big Booger]

People who are fashionable today are dorks 20 years from now... so who gives a shit?