The Trend Hunter website has found a new emerging trend: foreigners in Japan who wear face masks. And it’s more true than used to be the case – I’ve seen plenty of foreigners this winter wearing masks. Maybe on doctor’s orders like me the other week, or maybe it’s really catching on. I expected people to stare at the funny foreigner wearing the mask, but nobody flinched – except some foreign tourists I walked past in Shibuya.
Can I claim to have started this trend on this site? Well, I’ll leave that up to your judgment.
Possible other face mask trends include colours. On the train the other day, I saw a lady wearing a pink kimono with a matching pastel pink face mask. My local convenience store didn’t branch out that much with its product range!
Thinking of emerging trends, there’s a faint glimmer of possibility that other sites will occasionally link here. The nice people at Share This reviewed this site a few months ago along with others that use the Share This button at the end of each post.
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Wednesday night running
Quick melt
Shibuya in the snow
Snowing in Tokyo
Winter hike to Kawanori-san
Akemashite omedeto gozaimasu
Advertising cacophony
Hakuba
Ear wax
Yakiniku
Absolutely, you are a trend leader!
You can get colour masks in web shops like this one (http://www.idrugstore.com/details/detail.asp?B=5&M=51&S=167&PID=869).
Thanks Kohei, I’ll have the 50 pack of orange ones please! What a bargain for only 2,000 yen.
Let’s get Jamie out of the office and go for a beer again soon.