Waseda's Used Panty Museum

[Taro Toporific]

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Ancient strippers still spreading their butterfly wings at prestigious university
MSN-Mainichi Daily News, by Marvin Feltcher---July 18, 2006
From the land of panty vending machines and a thriving business in soiled knickers comes the news that a museum run by Japan's most prestigious private university has a collection of female stripper's undies dating back more than half a century...The Tsubouchi Memorial Theater Museum Waseda University....treasures are some real goldmines..., all covered in glittering decorations, dyed into flamboyant colors and shaped with distinctive wings that gave the undies the nickname of "butterflies."...more...

[dimwit]

Will the museum have a Shinichiro Wada wing?

Just thought I'd check.

[Charles]

Hmm.. I recall seeing this guy and his collection in Geijutsu Shincho magazine a few years ago. I couldn't quite tell if the article was attempting to be serious scholarship, or a poking fun at the weirdness of it all. But the guy has a serious collection of stripper and showgirl memorabilia, all archived and stored like it was a serious art collection.