Shopping Rebellion Rebecca's Mead's not-to-be-missed report on Japanese youth fashion and culture, in the current New Yorker, is worth the long read. "Another recent trend was wearing boots with twenty-centimeter platform heels. There have been at least five reported shoe-related fatalities, one involving a twenty-five-year-old who died after tumbling off her own footwear, and another who lost control of her car's brake pedal and crashed into a pole, thereby killing her passenger." And we thought Japanese culture was weird back when they just worked twice as hard as Americans. I just wish they had hired a photographer to work with her on the article; photos would have really been helpful.
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