Reply #54: a couple more links [View All]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harajuku_Girl

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_Lolita

this is a style that I don't find attractive at all but you see it alot in pictures of harajuku girls.

Gwen Stefani co-opted harajuku fashion and pissed alot of people off by referring to her paid dancers who dress in harajuku fashion as her 'favorite accessories'. Really typical, stupid attitude...it led to this website because her of treatment of the dancers (some weren't native Japanese, one might have been Chinese and they were bound by contract to speak only in Japanese even though some if not all were bi-lingual) and led to this blog lampooning her, asking people to 'free the Gwenihana four':
http://gwenihana.blogspot.com/

I was reading a website at that time ( www.angryasianman.com ) that got this started and fanned the flames...