This oufit is so friggin cool. I love everthing is so vintage. I love the patterns on the bag and I like the hat

So intricately detailed! She really does look like a porcelain doll. I love how you have her framed in the greenery with that busy pole; it looks like she just sprang forth from the leaves!

I love that vintage hats are all the rage right now! Everything from confederate, flapper and 40’s/50’s cocktail hour are back.
@ Lactose Int: It’s true, the hats in the states are much cheaper. The prices here are outrageous sometimes >< For a fashion die hard it’d be worth taking a vacation to the states :D

Long time no see Kjeld! Actually the yen/dollar diff. doesn’t have much to do with it. Antiques and vintage wear in general are much cheaper in the states. I suppose it’s the fact that most of the vintage wear in Japan is from the states (thus an import) and there is also a market willing to pay for it. The states also has goodwill, salvation army and garage sales where finding a cool piece at a bargain is easy.

Well I am from the midwest(where most Japanese buyers come to get their vintage clothes), and although vintage is in demand now, the prices are still extremely reasonable. In places like NYC there are speciality shops catering to vintage dresses etc which are very pricey, but if you don’t mind digging around a little the local charity goodwill or small consignment shops you’ll sometimes hit gold :D

Ooh I love her watch, looks like a mini Big Ben clock :D

Brilliant! She is beautiful. Her outfit wonderfully put together. It’s like every piece of the outfit are jigsaw pieces and they’re meant to be together. And I must confess, the hat is to die for. :3

@Sierra and Kjeld-Yea, I agree with Sierra! Most of the stuff here is much cheaper. I think its mostly because of demand though. Like Sierra said, in places like the big cities in New York/LA, places where really unique vintage is more sellable, the prices will definitely be higher. But you have to realize that in general, at least where I live, young “cool” girls wouldn’t be caught dead wearing a hat like that where they wanted to be seen as “cool.”

Actually, I’ve never found anything THAT old at Salvation army or Goodwill (not that it couldn’t happen), but you can definitely find it at flea markets or MAYBE garage sales for WAY less than 6000 yen…I’m thinking even antique shops that have them (and most people from here that buy them put them on display, they don’t actually wear them out..or maybe for costume) they might be like 2000 or 30000 yen tops, I think.

I have a lot of good locations where I see stuff that I know is MUCH higher in Harajuku, and relevant to the street fashion kids that NOBODY here even wears. I can get it for CHEAP too, but I don’t know anything about shipping to Japan or how to locate a buyer. Would love to do that though, because I’m always going thrifting/flea marketing/etc..Because that’s how I get MY street fashion look. Haha.

And as far as some parts being from Grimoire, I wouldn’t be suprised if almost all of it came from there!!

Once again, the colors are INCREDIBLE! Lately I’ve been noticing that with Japanese fashion, even if the outfits are more outrageous than what an American would wear, the outfits have WAAAAY better color palettes! They know how to do color =)
And her eye makeup is so cool! Love it!

I love looking at these photos, because I am in the process of re-inventing my style. I want to look more unique and be an inspiration to others who were feeling stagnant the way I feel. What I love most about Japanese fashion is that you could wear absolutely anything and somehow, it works. Kika’s outfit here features my personal favorite color—red. It’s a tricky color, though. Her entire ensemble is fantastic, and gives me lots of great ideas. I love the bottle necklace, and instead of buying one, I design and make lots of my own jewelry so I think I will make one of my own. Right now, I love Dolly-kei and Mori girl fashions, because they feel more like me, and I’m slowly evolving my style in that direction. Anyways, thank you for your lovely photographs! Lots of good material here!

Love this look!