Tham khảo tài liệu 'japanese in manga land 2 phần 7', ngoại ngữ, nhật - pháp - hoa- others phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Cultural Note Passion for fashion It would not be suprising to find out that the word fashion victim so much in vogue nowadays had been invented to describe Japanese urban youth. Or maybe not. Either IX UAC e n 61 way the truth is that if you walk around the and ĨS districts in Ỳ. or WHJ cZsi tfi Sfr and .ciHfc in ÀR you can come across vast numbers of young people whose photograph would perfectly illustrate a dictionary entry for fashion victim. Japanese urban fashion is eclectic colorful sometimes extreme and sometimes absolutely outlandish. There arc times when you feel you really are before one of those flamboyant fashion shows in Paris or Milan mega-short skirts conspicuous accessories cowboy hats spike heel boots pink angora sweaters hair dyed platinum blonde terribly expen sive designer handbags knee-long stockings with sports shoes. All this and a lot more rules Japanese 7 T J ỳ 3 which varies at a hectic pace being therefore extremely dif- ficult to follow. But not everybody can afford changing their wardrobe completely every two or three months. In fact this represents one of the urban youth s most urgent problems basically among girls how to find money to be fashionable. Of course not everybody in Japan is rich enough to be able to afford such frantic spending. Therefore mo- ney is obtained via all kind of scheming from asking one s parents or simply having an 7 4 b part-time job for students in a 2 f- convenience store to practically prostituting oneself with the so called iisi Rig. literally relationship in exchange of help which entails very young girls going out with middle-aged men generally 40 or over in exchange for money. The -f b dates can involve anything from an innocent afternoon snack or coffee to ending up in bed. The thing is fashion is like a religion or rather pure mimicry if my neighbor has that Gucci or Cartier handbag why shouldn t I have it Thus it is not in vain that the KUX world s main luxury firms consider n Ỳ their most .