Still the rave.... BIG socks! Soon a California thing...

Japanese school girls like fads. If something is very popular with other girls, they like it, too. For example, they all want to have little pocket telephones to call their friends, or they all want to collect "sticker photos."

Recently, many Japanese girls have started wearing "loose socks". Loose socks are big, baggy socks that hang loosely around the legs. They buy them in special stores that sell only socks. They like to wear them because they are very comfortable and cover the shape of their legs. In winter, they are very warm. Almost all the school girls wear them because if they don't wear them, they think they stand out and they feel different.



Some Japanese school teachers don't let girls wear them because they think loose socks are not appropriate for school, so girls wear them in the school powder room or in an empty classroom, or they wear them after school in the train station.

Maybe they will not be popular for long time, but right now they are a big hit with school girls all over Japan.


And sailor suit uniforms.. Always a school fashion in Japan...already starting in Calfornia!



These uniforms inspired a whole new look in anime...and are being worn now in Northern California private schools.

Could these be next for boys in Northern California?

um...great shoes guys..yeah they sure match

Yes; the're back again...thanks in part to the video for the house song "Call On Me" (remix of Valerie by Steve Winwood) by Eric Prydz.

And Even the Shy and Kawaii ones love them..!!

this will spark a strange fetish.

The Lolita look welded with the Gothic look...so goes Japan.