ICHIYA’s POP Eye – Men’s Fashion

　From Kyary Pamyu Pamyu Moshi Moshi Nippon’s “ICHIYA’s POP EYE”.
  Today’s topic is Men’s Fashion!
  Japanese teenager is fashionable. They have their own, unique and outrageous style.  For foreigners, it may seem that their styles are too famine. Though they pay great attentions to style and cleanness. They are very fussy.
  There are many men’s brands and countless numbers of men’s fashion magazines. Moreover, men’s magazines are targeted at specific demographics, such as junior high students, high school students, college students, 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s.
  Men’s Fashion magazines in Japan also vary in many different specific categories, such as casual, street, and vintage. There are even special magazines for watches, shoes, and accessories. 
  Of course, there is one specialized  in Japanese kimono for people like myself. Isn’t it strange?
  There are so many men’s cosmetics too. Popular items are deodorant skin care products and sweat wipes as well as perfumes and hair-tonic with good fragrant. There is a kit to tidy eyebrows for men. Some report says teenagers in Tokyo spend 80 percent of their monthly allowance into fashion. Isn’t it quite amazing? 
  In Edo era, which is approximately 150 years ago, people did the similar things. Combing hair with oil everyday, making sure there is absolutely no loose hair at all, arranging eyebrow with a rising intonation, and pulling all the beard off completely, etc. Back then, men also shaved and drew their eyebrows. 
  They enjoyed kimono by layering a few different colors, though the colors of the fabrics were quite conservative like navy blue, and the combination of collars and strings. They also enjoyed various coordination’s, such as patterned liners and cigarette case accessories.
  Japanese men may not be good at communications and are quiet. They don’t actively speak up at international meetings or parties. However they have a passion to express themselves through fashion, even though they may not be able to express themselves with words so well. 
  Please pay attentions to Japanese men too.