The T-shirt Diaries
T-Shirts in Japan are a fashion accessory taken way beyond the “classic” status that they hold everywhere else around the world. There are shops dedicated to T-shirts and many designers display them like pieces of art (which, to be fair, some are). The designs printed on them are befuddling, artistic, kawaii, colourful and sometimes just plain weird.
Recently, there has even been an exhibition entitled T-shirts as Media (link found through Jean Snow). In fact, the whole website (www.tshirtsasmedia.com) is worth perusing (all in Japanese though).
Most of the designer T-shirts you’ll find in shops are mens but hopefully there’ll be a few baby cut womens tees as I plan to acquire some!
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July 8th, 2005 at 9:35 pm
Those t-shirts is so awesome, unlucky for me I don’t understand japanese and live in Europe. Does anyone know a online store(in english) that have cool t-shrits and ship world-wide?
July 9th, 2005 at 2:47 pm
It’s very hard to find English sites that will sell real Japanese designer T-shirts. A Google search gives a very long list of people who will print your silly message of choice in kanji and cheap grade fabrics *sigh*
Thinkgeek have a very nice Domo-kun shirt though.