Crimson Reflections

For November’s Bibliotheca theme of food, we look at the recent trend of lemon themed prints!

A look at ‘A Critique of Lolita Fashion’ featured in the September 1987 issue of Ryuko Tsushin, often cited as the first appearance of the term lolita fashion in print.

Lucky Packs, or “Fukubukuro” / 福袋 (sometimes called “Lucky Bags”, “Happy Bags”, “Happy Packs”, “Happy Sets” or sometimes “Special Sets”) are blind bags of clearance

Innocent World Shinjuku was posting a bunch of hair styling tutorials in 2020/2021, but then they deleted their twitter when they closed the physical store,

I’m still not really traveling but COVID derailed our Christmas which led to having a tea party with 3 generations of my family a couple hours from my house, so that’s going to have to count.

This year, after 9 years of blogging, I passed the 200 post mark.

I was reading post about the use of the term “replica” versus a stronger term like “counterfeit” or “fake”. One of the arguments against this

Lucky Packs, or “Fukubukuro” / 福袋 (sometimes called “Lucky Bags”, “Happy Bags”, “Happy Packs”, “Happy Sets” or sometimes “Special Sets”) are blind bags of clearance

Continuing our teddy bear series, today we are looking at Teddy bears and how they intersect with Pink House.

The first part of a 3-part series looking lightly into the history of the teddy bear and where bears have popped up in specific Japanese street fashions.