Train fashion

I haven't done justice this year to the fashion thing in Tokyo, mainly because I often feel self-conscious about asking people if I can photograph them - even if they are wearing the most outrageous outfits and clearly want to be noticed.

Anyway, I recently saw these four young women on a train when I was coming back from Costco. When I took out my camera and asked if I could take a photo, they jumped into a pose!


I'm going to try to get more fashion-detail stuff in later posts, but these women do represent a lot of what we see on the streets, like the shag haircuts, thigh-high black knee socks or tights with white shoes, yellow baby-doll dresses and high heels with almost everything.

And it seems like almost every woman in Tokyo carries a designer bag; Louis Vuitton does 40 percent of its business here - and even this woman has one.



Here's another trend in Tokyo: jeweled fingernails, to go with jewel-covered cell phones. (click pic to really see the jewels)



More fashion to come...