Social Camouflage

See it?

I'm doing quite well with money this month, so I decided it might be time to do a little more shopping for clothes. Clothes don't come cheap in Tokyo, but there is a way to find affordable clothes. Today I went out to get a few t-shirts.

 Japan is quirky shirt central. The country has no rivals. No competitors. It seems to me in the textile industry, the main export is weird. Partly because a lot of these shirts have English sentences written on them that don't make sense. But even then, there are shirts with such things as shit on a stick being mass produced and sold to the youth.

As far as I know, the main hot spot to catch such products is in Harajuku, on Takeshita-dori street. If you're a reader from my hometown of Montreal, call it the "Mont-Royal Street" of Tokyo, if you will. The place is thriving with local small businesses selling their own unique (or sometimes frequently seen) weird clothing and accessories. It doesn't take long to catch a glimpse of something that'll make you smile for all the wrong reasons.

 Thing is, people buy them! People buy this stuff for a decent sum, which isn't something I can see happening back home, where most of what people wear is pretty tame in comparison. But here, it could be that it's considered cute, or trendy, to wear something that beams no sense whatsoever.

 This of course, only holds true for young people. You won't find middle-aged men wearing the stuff on display in hipsterific-Harajuku.

As for myself?
 Yeah, whatever. I caved, too. Where else in the world could you find something like this?