“Otaku Fashion” Most Loathed by Japanese Women
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Apr 17, 2013 17:56 JST
- Tags: Anime Goods, Comparison, Dating, Fashion, Otaku, Relationships, Statistics
Japanese women quizzed on how they expect their menfolk to dress have yet again made it clear that even eternal virginity is too good for those who insist on dressing like creepy otaku, singling out the archetypal staple of otaku “fashion” – a checked shirt tucked into a pair of jeans with rucksack riding high on both shoulders – for persistent scorn.
Of the women put to question, 55.7% reported having seen men with clothes they thought abject fashion failures – unsurprisingly, otaku fashion featured highly:
“I once saw a guy in his forties wearing an anime T-shirt…” – 33-year-old real estate agent
“When they wear their rucksacks high like that, everyone can spot them as an otaku a mile off.” – 25-year-old technician
“The most otaku-ish of all – a checked shirt and jeans!” – 24-year-old food technician
“Checked shirts and rucksacks, those are the most otaku of all, I wouldn’t be seen dead walking with someone like that!” – 29-year-old IT worker
Closely related were complaints about deviants who insist on tucking in their shirts:
“Shirt tucked in, worst fashion choice ever.” – 27-year-old office worker
“Shirts tucked into their trousers, even my dad doesn’t do that!” – 27-year-old food worker
“When they have shirts in their pants, and the size isn’t a good fit.” – 23-year-old wholesaler
Other complaints concentrated on a lack of cleanliness, and fashion choices which were “too individualistic”:
“Clothes which are just too lively and individual are just creepy.” – 28-year-old wholesaler
“The ones who try too hard – like they come to a wedding where you’d wear a normal suit, but wearing a bow-tie or a distinctive shirt?” – 31-year-old food worker
Misfitting clothes, trousers worn around the hips, “wagara” Japanese patterns, pointie shoes, unseasonable clothing, “B-kei” (hiphop) or “V-kei” (visual) fashion and styles associated with middle-aged or middle-school males were all also singled out for opprobrium.
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If you tuck your shirt into your pants it really is pretty gross.
GO DIE SHIT HEAD!
TOKYO SOON TO BE NUKED!
ya mums a HORDE!
A horde is a very large group of unruly people. I don't think you can have more than one 'mum'.
Maybe it was a "Yo mama is so fat..." joke?
FOR THE HORDE!
I think his many moms contribute an organ each, which would explain his mental state.
LOL U MAD BRO?
Ya mums a horde haha first time I ever seen that :P That should be on a shirt :)
I loled @CAPS LOCK HERO :lol: :lol:
Why do you look angry all the time ? :3
The only exception to this is a formal suit, or other formal clothing...
And ripped models. They look good in anything.
Hell yeah!
Wait, you were talking about ripped girls in suits, right?
Come on, its back to the 60'.
This one always confuses me. I was always taught to wear my shirt tucked in way back in grade school (along with all the other students around me, and carrying all the way through high school, from what I can remember), and pretty much always have. That people would have problems with someone wearing their shirt tucked in just seems the most bizarre sort of bias.
I wont call it a gross, a poo fall on your face, is what I will label gross..
Maybe it look nerdier, or look too formal/tidy to tuck shirt into the pant. People usually go with more relaxing dress, or "wild style" when go for a walk or a date, tuck in cloth at such place look out of place.
Tuck in cloth work well if you are in office.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sy6JRx00bzo/TfyEow44VGI/AAAAAAAAASc/gcHn0z9AfDs/s400/shirt2big.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-By4t5RQU2Yc/TdziRsloyNI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/G-ZWwrWK5og/s400/image1xl.jpg
gross? I dunno if I'd go that far, but I can't say I bother with it, personally. I wear for comfort, and not having my shirt air out (it's hot quite often in California) just doesn't sit right with me.
"The people who are awkward and not part of us and don't really know how or why they should be like everyone else are disgusting!" -28-year-old cunt and mother of and married to atrocious douchebags.
My personal favorite is "24-year-old Food technicion" though. Who the fuck are they fooling.
Jokes aside, the worst part isn't the fashion. Like everything else, it's the fact that the otaku ruthlessly defend their inability to cope as a defense mechanism, which cuts off the one redeemable aspect that nobody would hold against them should they work with it, and that is the ability to grow and learn about things outside themselves when people bring it up. Critics are one thing, but constant input that you creep people out should lead to some pattern recognition.
I have figures and anime scrolls, I just keep them in a specific place and setting. My living room is a welcoming place for anyone, just has the rack of games that may as well look like a rack of books.
What's a "food technician"?
Something you wouldn't have to ask if you use your favorite web search engine.
....Someone working in a fast food joint. That's the closest I can guess lol.
When you're working part-time at Magdonalds
Considering Subway employees are "sandwich artists" they're probably just burger flippers.
Her opinion is probably because McDonalds doesn't allow checked shirts and jeans as standard uniform.
That's somebody who builds food, what the hell did you think? That food just grew on trees or skipped through the meadows?
It's like a sports adventurer.
That's what I thought at first then I remembered mcdonalds.
we are now hiring cLOSERS
A person that "prepares" your food with some science/industrial/chemical reactions.
Or the food the person servers you is "technically" but not legally food.
like anime with food fetish?
Like that episode of Ixion Saga DT. DT was home sick, so they prepared "prepared" fast food burgers, fries and soft drink for DT with pixellated animals, plants and plenty of "science" and magic.
i felt so much for him... when he was angry ... and yelling around that he needs burgers and games.. and at the same time felt like the anime producers were WAY TOO mean to kon... especially the parts with sain glain.
btw... wasnt that the same episode with the princess and her 3 .... ahoge's?
so they prepared lots of "gänsefüße"? ^^
Food Technician is for food what Waste Management Technician/Sanitation Worker is for trash, garbage & litter.
Perhaps some who does... reverse engineering on food...? I mean, that would be awesome.
>>“The most otaku-ish of all – a checked shirt and jeans!”
I'm honestly curious, why is that?
Yeah.. that one threw me off to. I'm sure the most Otaku-ish of all is the moe shirts.
Nah, that's cool.
If that's the case, I think I understand why this Japanese girl is keeping her distance from me.
It's become a kind of uniform for otaku, so no one else wears it. A dead giveaway.
I often wear checkered shirts but no jeans, in fact I don't wear pants at all.
Safe?
What? I thought it was the uniform for grunge and hipsters.
afaik uniforms got nothing to do with hipsters and grunde.
i could argue that grundge and hipster ppl are the opposite of "uniformed people".
A Japanese thing I guess. Checked shirts in the US are just that, checked shirts. They don't really signify anything, even when worn with jeans. Just casual wear.
Well, this one suprised me as well.
Here in Europe it's usually associated with technology, engineering or computer science students, and as well with people who work in such professions.
That's odd. As an American in information/computer science, I don't see it as often.
seriously what is wrong with a rucksack i had one when i went to work i needed to have water in it sometimes even food and clothes in case the weather got colder or hotter
Read it again. It's not the rucksack, but the way they wear them, with the straps tightened so that they ride very high on their backs.
Which incidentally, from a biological perspective, is the best place to wear a rucksack.
Anyway, the way I read the article was: ‘Wearing anything that doesn't make you look like a photocopy of you neighbour is right out.’
They are not suited to be worn on the head, and many people are not suited to watching (or being around) this any more than the usual setting. And the usual setting can aggravate your lordosis.
With that in mind, the best place to wear a rucksack would still be school grounds or anywhere else you might get surprise-stabbed for not supporting the correct football club (or another reason of the kind this article covers). The sterical protection and reaction time buffer only count as a luck boost really, if you consider the realistic aspects of, say, Araragi x Hachikuji scenes.
but wearing it high on back prevents back pain if this is meant here.Or do they go even higher then that?
Is that even possible?
women are stupid shallow creatures, you expect them to know or acknowledge that?
Agreed. So sick of fucking women
Over here in Cali, all the cool kids wear their rucksack (backpack) up high.