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[telophase]

Home from con for today. No sales*. Don't know about the attendance - it was sparse for most of the day, but got a bit heavier about 5:30. Hopefully Saturday will be more busy.

I also got my Harajuku arm warmers in the mail today, and they should come in quite handy at the con tomorrow, as the hall I'm in is rather drafty. :)



* Not that I expected any, but it would have been nice.

Comments

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

I love those arm warmers. I have them in pink.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I considered pink, but ended up getting them in brown. :)

Life as a knitter

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

Your first thought: "Hey, those would be easy to reverse engineer."

Re: Life as a knitter

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Incredibly easy! :D

[chomiji]

Hmmm ... arm warmers have wool ... wool that will end up in sensitive places. Nope.

Sorry about the sales situation!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Not all the ones they sell have wool! :D

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Non-woolen ones are definitely out there...I can't wear wool against my skin either, but I've got a few pairs of stripey Hello Kitty arm warmers in a nice non-irritating cotton/spandex blend. :)

(Are you looking for you or the YL? Hot Topic actually tends to have wrist/arm warmers in plain acrylic or cotton/spandex blends (mostly lots of solid black, black-with-colored stripes, or black with random punky/gothy prints and embellishments), and my Kitty-chan sets actually came from Claire's. If you're looking for something a little plainer in solid colors other than black, I just saw a stash of long cotton/spandex fingerless gloves at Macy's winter accessories department last week.)

[sho-sunaga.livejournal.com]

Real cool...just curious why is it calles Harajuku? Is the style called Harajuku in the States?

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

The term does tend to get used a lot in English to describe youth street fashion, especially the colorful-layered-eclectic FRUiTS magazine sort of looks. Singer Gwen Stefani probably can get some of the blame for further popularizing the term in recent years -- she had a troupe of backup dancers called "the Harajuku Girls", and has a fashion and perfume line called "Harajuku Lovers".

[sho-sunaga.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Now it makes sense what they mean by "Harajuku." For me Harajuku fashion means "on the edge VERY young people fashion."

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Tabisocks imports them from Japan, and they're catering to the crowd that (a) knows of Harajuku fashion and (b) thinks it's cool. :D

[sho-sunaga.livejournal.com]

I like their name Tabisocks too!! Although when you translate it becomes, Socksock(^^)

[seawolf10.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Those might be nice for those days when it's cold enough that you want a little warmth, but not cold enough to bust out the leather gloves. (Well, motorcycle gauntlets, in my case. They keep everything from my fingertips to just below my elbows warm.)