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Dust Bowl Fasion Finally Finds Its Way To Japan

Those of you who know me will know that I have no business talking about fasion, let alone viewing a blog dedicated to the exploration of fasion around the world.  So you can all thank Daryll Lynne for picking up on this literary oddity.

From The Sartorialist, we have this post [oh, come on; no permalinks?] from Monday, July 9th, called "Grapes of Wrath & Sullivan's Travels."  It's a short post, but here's an excerpt:

More than just about overalls ,to me, this look is about how Japan sees our (American) historic costume - i.e. 30's Dust Bowl - in a much more romantic way than we even see ourselves.

You've got to see the pictures to really understand it.  And it seems that this is just one of many current fashion trends in Japan that come out of their fascination with old books, American as well as Italian (The Sartorialist doesn't mention any others in this post).

This makes even less sense to me than fasion usually does.  But hey, who can account for taste?

Posted on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 at 11:04AM by Registered CommenterEric Scovel in | Comments1 Comment

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I don't think this seems odd at all. I noticed the same post at The Sartorialist and was charmed - again - by how narrative Japanese fashion is. Much more so than American fashion. While we do have subculture fashion narratives as well - goth, surfer chic, etc. - these trends never really get beyond their subculture, and thus are always costumey and youth-oriented. The well-dressed people in the Sartorialist's post seem to be, to some degree, trancending subculture as well as alluding to the narrative from which the fashion stems - I think it's awesome.
July 11, 2007 | Unregistered Commenterrebekah silverman

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