Omelette, cheap gifts and virtuous fashion
Jun. 3rd, 2008 12:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Hisae and I spent last week apart, in body if not in spirit; while she was eating okonomiyaki at Mr Young Men in Kyoto, I was eating the same pancake omelette dish at Kuishimbo in Vienna (and very nice it was too).
Hisae brought back some sencha (the powdery kind they serve in sushi restaurants), a copy of Ku:nel (our favourite Japanese magazine and -- like okonomiyaki -- unavailable in Berlin), some fresh cotton tenuguis and a t-shirt by Downtown comedian Matsumoto celebrating ordinary old people.
Here are a couple of the Ku:nel fashion pages. I'd call this "postmaterialist style" dressing.
There's nothing sexier, for me, than someone who looks like a nice and a good person, as this girl does; as usual, I can't separate the aesthetic from the ethical.
The off-register floral housecoat Hisae is wearing in the top photo is my gift to her from Vienna. It's cute because it makes her look very hardworking -- virtuous fashion again?
More snaps at Flickr.
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Date: 2008-06-03 10:53 am (UTC)I'd call it neo-hippy.
Now, where's my Davendra Banhart cd?
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Date: 2008-06-03 10:55 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-06-03 11:02 am (UTC)it makes her look aesthetic from the ethical
Date: 2008-06-03 11:52 am (UTC)Don't know how a regular haus frau would pull it off.
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Date: 2008-06-03 11:56 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-06-03 12:54 pm (UTC)"postmaterialist style""Muji/everything under 5000yen" style for pretentious housewives.
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Date: 2008-06-03 01:30 pm (UTC)Muji studiously avoid patterning or decoration. For them, it's all about taking the floral and berry motifs off things.
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Date: 2008-06-03 02:28 pm (UTC)"There's nothing sexier, for me, than someone who looks like a nice and a good person, as this girl does; as usual, I can't separate the aesthetic from the ethical."
This comment strongly registered with me. I seek kind-hearted people first and foremost.
No more "stylist sneer"?
Date: 2008-06-03 02:39 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-06-03 05:24 pm (UTC)Would she have an abortion?
Date: 2008-06-03 06:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-06-03 06:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-06-03 06:48 pm (UTC)-John F.F.
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Date: 2008-06-03 06:51 pm (UTC)-John F.F.
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Date: 2008-06-03 08:02 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-06-03 08:40 pm (UTC)If she's half as golden-hearted as she looks I'm sure she'll turn around to you and say "カバーから本はわからぬ。"
it makes her look very hardworking
Date: 2008-06-03 08:58 pm (UTC)Re: Would she beat up Emos?
Date: 2008-06-03 10:17 pm (UTC)“You have long hair.”
“It’s a medical condition, bitch.”
laura ashley
Date: 2008-06-04 02:24 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-06-04 04:28 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-06-04 11:23 am (UTC)