GOING PINK (again)---I wear pink partly out of insouciant challenge to hormone-brained business"men" trapped in grays and navys and blacks--dark makes them "look" important. For people who are deeply venal and un-important it is very important to "look" important.
I wore this to an ACCJ Chamber of Commerce meeting in Tokyo last night and was welcomed---a dozen came up attracted by the PINK-ness of the pink (and the subtle banboo pattern on the pink kimono material. They also were wondering what sort of brain damage I had that drove me to violating the gray-blue-black rule imposed by men on each other to help each other feel more important than each other are.
This is a suit design from last year---DESIGNED to be conservative. It has no sleeves (global warming coming) very long jacket (almost knee level), asymmetric front patterns, slight obi patching on the back--RATHER boring and conservative, or at least about AS boring and conservative as I allow of myself these days.
The black shirt--if you zoom in--has a lovely pattern for it is kimono silk too. The suit, silk not elastic, is deliberately large in size for free movement--hence it is very very comfortable to wear as good silks tend to be.
On trains and in other public venues--this simple suit gets a LOT of attention---good attention (though if worn in the USA I would inevitably be spit on daily wearing such--the USA people are rather intolerant as a whole especially--for some reason--of upscale fashion looks, anything above GAP CRAP).
In winter, here in Japan, wearing a no sleeves suit with thin silk fabric, not thicker dark males cheap fabrics--there is a spring-y light bright look where all around on street and train stations and in lobbies are black and navies and grays and puffy down jackets---all of them made of the world's ugliest possible materials--clothes designed to en-profit some execs and owners, not enhance customers wearing them--bait and switch inc.).
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