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<blockquote data-quote="Vashdaman" data-source="post: 435069" data-attributes="member: 246"><p>Was doing some reading on the ganguro and yamanba &quot;black face&quot; girls of the late 90s early 00s, yeah they are fully wicked. Silently commenting on and rejecting the male created institutionalised imaginary ethnic and sexual ideals of Japanese femininity. A proper eff you to middle class Japanese status quo. So I guess their fashion wasn't meaningless fluff. The book I was reading was suggesting that pretty much all the Japanese street fashion movements have all appropriated and twisted male conceptions of girlhood into their own forms of unspoken rebellion. For me the ganguro girls are the peak of Japanese rebellious style though, because they seemed to make their point so violently and unmistakably. However they were still victims of the importance that society places on appearances , since they treated with disgust and disdain by the Japanese media (outside of gyaru mags that catered to them) and most of their high school peers. Why is it that young people such as these are capable of communicating such complex and powerful sentiments only almost exclusively through non verbal fashion. Does fashion allow for a sort of collective unconscious form of rebellion that can't be articulated?</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Vashdaman, post: 435069, member: 246"] Was doing some reading on the ganguro and yamanba "black face" girls of the late 90s early 00s, yeah they are fully wicked. Silently commenting on and rejecting the male created institutionalised imaginary ethnic and sexual ideals of Japanese femininity. A proper eff you to middle class Japanese status quo. So I guess their fashion wasn't meaningless fluff. The book I was reading was suggesting that pretty much all the Japanese street fashion movements have all appropriated and twisted male conceptions of girlhood into their own forms of unspoken rebellion. For me the ganguro girls are the peak of Japanese rebellious style though, because they seemed to make their point so violently and unmistakably. However they were still victims of the importance that society places on appearances , since they treated with disgust and disdain by the Japanese media (outside of gyaru mags that catered to them) and most of their high school peers. Why is it that young people such as these are capable of communicating such complex and powerful sentiments only almost exclusively through non verbal fashion. Does fashion allow for a sort of collective unconscious form of rebellion that can't be articulated? [/QUOTE]

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