| Japanese Fashion Craze: Imitation See-Through Skirts! |
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| This is latest fashion craze in Japan? I don't buy it, and not just because I couldn't find a single legitimate press report verifying the claim. These images show definite signs of being Photoshopped. |
| For starters, in every one of the photos the contours of the "imitation" legs and panties match the poses of the models exactly, which shouldn't be the case if they're printed on the surfaces of the skirts. What we see instead are passable representations of what it might look like if the clothing were really transparent. |
| Secondly, whoever manipulated the images made subtle errors, most notably in the last photo, where, when the image is enlarged, lines and shadows belonging to the superimposed legs and panties cut visibly across the model's purse straps. All the examples, examined closely, give the impression that the panty images were overlayed directly onto the photographs, not imprinted on the clothing. |
| Japanese fashion designers do have a reputation for cutting-edge � even wacky, at times � ideas, but see-through clothing isn't one of them. Yet. |
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| Excerpt from the originating e-mail: |
| Date: 13 Feb 2003 Subject: Crazy ideas from Japan... Another Crazy Fashion from Japan What you see below are not see-thru skirts. They are actually prints on the skirts to make it look as if the panties are visible and the current rage in Japan. |
| (On the picture on rightmost, look at her white panties as some of the white is smeared onto the green apron on the right. Now how could it be real when the apron is on top of the blue skirt and it looks like the white panties is smeared on the apron?) |