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Month: September 2007
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Clothing with ventilation
Since 2004 a Japanese company is selling clothes with incorporated fans, maybe they copied they idea from the beds with ventilation. You can order online from Rakuten if you are interested, it seems there are many models and variations. Here are some pictures that called my atention.
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The peace sign – The V sign
Why do Japanese do the “peace sign” when photographed? After asking many people like for example Dannychoo(Who talks today about the same thing), and reading many stuff; these are the “peace sign” reasons/origins from my point of view:
- After the Second World War they copied the sign from the USA soldiers maybe because they thought it was cool. The soldiers were using it as a “V”ictory sign, but the Japanese were using it as a “peace sign”.
- During the seventies it started being used when photographed because an American figure skater fell during the Sapporo Olympic games and was photographed/featured on different Japanese media where she was always doing the V sign. Japanese liked it and started imitating her.
- During the last decade music groups like Morning Musume and other similar ones used the V sign a lot and started changing/morphing it in different ways, and people copied that too. Nowadays there are many V style signs, you can do it vertical, horizontal, near your eyes, near you mouth… Usually the same person makes his own V sign style and uses it always when he has to pose for a picture.
- “Making your own V sign” is a trend that is extending to China and Korea
This is the Mourning Musume group, notice how each girl has her own V sign style. Some of them are not even V.