Japanese fashion girls
Kogals (コギャル kogyaru, lit. “small/child girl”) are a subculture of girls and young women in urban Japan, one of several types of so-called gals. They are characterized by conspicuously displaying their disposable incomes through unique tastes in fashion, music, and social activity. In general, the kogal “look” roughly approximates a sun-tanned California Valley girl, and indeed, the similarities between the two extend to the linguistic, for both subcultures have derived entire sets of slang terms (コギャル語 “ko-gyaru-go”). Kogals are not to be confused with the ganguro subculture, although they are similar.
(Picture – Two Japanese fashion girls reading photographer’s contracts they were just offered in the street outside the very fashionable)
Kogals platform is well-known boots, short skirts, abundant make-up, dyed hair (usually blond), artificial sun bath, and designer accessories. If the school uniform, skirt look usually includes a fixed high, loose socks (large, up to the knee loose socks). Kogals’ busy social life and new material desires so that they will be included in Japan’s first consumer mobile phone technology, their taste in clothes is often such as Burberry scarves and Louis Vuitton handbags name. Kogals cost a lot of free time (and their father’s income and more) shopping, and their cultural center around the Shibuya Tokyo area, in particular the 109 building, but any major city in Japan is certainly at least a small Zhongqun. In the summer, kogals sometimes appear on the beach. They generally do not see high-end department stores.
Critics condemned the Kogal subculture reflects life in modern Japan as a larger psychological or spiritual emptiness of materialism. Some kogals support their parents and affluent tax-free way of life, living a “freeters” or “parasite single” existence, on the responsibilities and principles of traditional industries grate. Very few appear in pornography to finance their habits. Can participate in the practice of “compensated dating”, or assistance in communication, which may in particular when the quasi-legal prostitution border. Internet-based use of the word, leading some Western observers believe that “kogal” means “prostitute” error.
The kogal phenomenon in the mid-90s, the effect can still be seen in its many sub-categories of off-shoots today, although conservative tastes in clothing and hair color appears to be increasing. Interestingly, the Gothic Lolita aesthetic has been described as an kogal see.
The etymology of the word is disputed: the most common theory is that it is “high school” Japanese derived, Section (Universities), although some people think that it comes from the high to (a), as “girls” or Japanese “children.” The “gallon” comes from the United Kingdom.
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