It was my second trip to
Tokyo. While I love the city, the people, the culture and its traditions, the
developed public transport system, the safe environment for tourist/women, a
problem I have is with their fashion and following a particular fashion
trend/color.
This time, for some good
reason(which I do not know), the whole of Tokyo- and I seriously mean The
WHOLE- men, women, old young (even babies) were dressed in BLACK. If at all, I
saw any other color than black, it was white or else beige.
Was it a fashion trend,
winter trend, were they ALL still in mourning after the earthquake? Like I
said, I do not know the reason. But Black is what I saw and I came color
starved. I was yearning to see some colors- Yellow, Red, Orange, Blue, Green,
my favorite fuchsia would be asking for too much from them. It is one thing for
men to be attired in black office suits. But women too were dressed only in
black. Color actually felt like oxygen to me and I wanted to breathe some
color.
The dose of some color I got
was only in my Milongas, where women came wearing beautiful attires. But guess
what. They came in Blacks and brought their changes along (sometimes even small
suitcases) and everyone changed at the venue and had their lockers. Was any
other color banned? I am so curious to know. Honest appeal to all Japanese.
Please bring back some color to your life. You look beautiful and radiant in
your colorful kimonos and dainty dresses. Get over Black. And more than that,
stop following one fashion/color trend. Be more individualist. Have your own
attitude. Stop following the rat race and becoming part of the herd. Stop
looking all alike. If you need inspiration, take it from Indian women. Check this blog post.
Experiment a bit more.
Stop being conformist
See even children in black.
How sad are they all.