I tried to tell the complicated characters and situations of women in the 21st centuries, but I couldn’t quite reach a conclusion even within myself so I’d like to wrap up with that.
One of the newest lifestyle fads is “petit-luxury”. An easy example of this can be a person who usually has a 500-yen-lunch for 6-days a week treating herself with a 2,000-yen-lunch for just once a week. Well, true, not many would have thought of spending 2,000 yen on mere lunch during the economic recession.
Like this example, the celeb-wannabe women whom I wrote about yesterday aren’t always rich and celeb but are in fact cutting expenses on some other parts of their lives. Their biggest dream of dream, though, is of course to become extremely rich so that they can have all the luxury without having to have to save money somewhere else. They want to become real rich celebrities.
That means that they demand high income in their future hubbies and this leads to their obsession with appearance from fashion, hair style, make-up and behaviors that men like – their short-term goal is to become attractive to men. Even though it probably requires a lot of effort I suppose that process is part of the fun for women anyways... but anyway, firstly they need to become able to expand their choices of men and then select the one that can provide their ideal lives.
I won’t say that this is the case for all Japanese women, of course not, but it is the reality and perhaps one of the conclusions the women who survived the Lost Decade reached.
Is it just me who feel like those gals have grown up a bit?
Oh, speaking of women, there’s a new female blogger on Japan Mode. She says she plans to write about things like Japanese stuff abroad and foreign-originated trends in Japan from a female point of view. It just started a day ago, but you’d better check that out too!!
http://japanmode.blogspot.com/
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