Momus is back in Japan, and he waxes poetic about the JAL stewardesses.
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Jean Snow lives and breathes design and pop culture in Tokyo -- sustained by an unhealthy addiction to magazines and frequent visits to his favorites cafes. He has reported on these obsessions for the following online/offline publications: Time, Inside (Australian Design Review), Gizmodo, Gridskipper, Kotaku, Tokyo Q, Superfuture, OK Fred, Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, I.D. (International Design), Metropolis, Azure, MoCo Loco, Kateigaho International Edition, Game|Life, and The Japan Times. He also manages the gallery space at Cafe Pause.
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Jean Snow is the design/culture editor at Neojaponisme, a web journal covering social and cultural aspects of Japan. Read the manifesto, by founder and chief editor W. David Marx, here.
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It should be said that the JAL gals no longer wear kimonos on flights. But who knows, with Japan’s new mood of self-consciousness (a self-directed exoticization to match the other-directed exoticization seen in those 60s ads) maybe the time is right for kimonos in the cabin again?
I could definitely see a sort of revision, maybe a kimono-like uniform. It would follow the trend that has seen traditional imagery pop up everywhere. Japan seems to be in love with itself right now.
Just got back from hatsumode at Gokoku-ji. I love going for the yatai stands — had a yummy butter potato!