Fashion is a big part of Japanese popular culture, and almost every magazine and website that has fashion-conscious readers will have a section showing pictures of the everyday fashionistas on the streets of Japan’s major cities.
And it’s not only women who feature in these sections, as more and more Japanese men take an interest in the ever-changing rules of cutting-edge style.
Still, when Hamusoku netizens caught sight of this collection of Japan’s most stylish men, as voted by Oricon Style readers, they weren’t entirely convinced that they should try these looks at home…
From Hamusoku.com:
Pride of Japan Stylish Guys Are So Fucking Funny wwwwwwwwwwwwww
http://www.oricon.co.jp/trend/mens/list/
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ハムスターちゃんねる:
Wowwww….
ハムスターちゃんねる:
If this is what stylish is, then you’d be pretty glad to be unfashionable.
ハムスター名無し:
The clothes my mummy picks are better! (Proud face)
ハムスター名無し:
Well, it’s fine if they’re happy in themselves (trembling voice).
ハムスターちゃんねる:
And these are the guys that won…
ハムスター名無し:
Pretty plain faces.
ハムスター名無し:
They’re too try-hard ww
ハムスター名無し:
Laaaaaaaaaaaaame www
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ハムスターちゃんねる:
Kinda seems like they’re the dregs of humanity who couldn’t get to be handsome no matter how they try.
ハムスター名無し:
Have they sneaked out from a Mode Gakuen [fashion school] fashion show? That’s got to be it!
ハムスターちゃんねる:
I imagined they’d be more shocking, but they really weren’t.
ハムスター名無し:
Too individualistic.
They just want so use the word “stylish” because it seems like everyone has a good impression of it.
When I see stuff like latest style in a magazine, it’s never really that useful.
ハムスターちゃんねる:
Disgusting….it’s like Korea.
ハムスターちゃんねる:
O-drunk-fail [kanji for “oshare” are 酒 [alcohol] 落 [to fall; fail] (笑)
ハムスター名無し:
Glancing over them they’re lame.
ハムスターちゃんねる:
Haven’t they mistaken “stylish” with “eccentric” wwwww
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ハムスター名無し:
Aren’t no. 7 and the others nouveau riche Thai guys?
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ハムスター名無し:
Why is no. 8 holding a fucking pillow? What, you’re gonna sleep? Are you homeless?
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ハムスターちゃんねる:
The pattern here is that if you try too hard with style, it actually just becomes lame.
ハムスターちゃんねる:
Somehow they all look like gooks
ハムスターちゃんねる:
Definitely a black history [term originating with Gundam]
ハムスター名無し:
I guess they think it’s artistic () or something…
ハムスター名無し:
I’m, like a girl and stuff, and I never want to go near people like this — did I mention I’m a girl? — top-to-toe tracksuit is waaay better than this.
ハムスター名無し:
The “I absolutely never ever want to become friends with them” championship.
ハムスター名無し:
Even if I was told “this, now this is style!” I still wouldn’t want to wear this stuff…
ハムスター名無し:
Their clothes look like Korean clothes….
And what’s more, one of them’s a wizard ww
Looks like they’re buying their clothes with money their parents send them www
ハムスター名無し:
Sure, it’s eccentric, but if taller, slimmer people were wearing them, they’re probably look cool.
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ハムスターちゃんねる:
Style is amazing (eyes roll)
ハムスター名無し:
Let’s enjoy fashion! (trembling voice)
ハムスターちゃんねる:
Well, hmm, that’s the thing, everyone has different tastes…but whose taste was this?
ハムスター名無し:
Some of them are stylish guys, but there are way more guys who just seem to have kind of missed the mark w
ハムスター名無し:
They all look like they might be streamed live on Nico Nico [Japanese video sharing site].
ハムスター名無し:
All humans are narcissists, but these guys take the biscuit.
ハムスターちゃんねる:
I want to show these guys how good the fashion sense of Italian men is. They’d give up for sure.
ハムスターちゃんねる:
They’re better than you lot on this thread, who are always, always, all in black.
ハムスター名無し:
I guess that this ranking is all about the clothes, and puts whether or not it suits them to one side.
What they look like from the neck up and their body type is irrelevant.
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ハムスターちゃんねる:
None of them seem quite right…
ハムスター名無し:
They’d never be allowed to take even one step outside of Harajuku.
ハムスター名無し:
I wouldn’t really walk next to any of them dressed like that…
ハムスターちゃんねる:
This is a test of endurance.
Like, who can go out with the lamest clothes on.
ハムスター名無し:
I can’t say anything, forever in tracksuits…
ハムスター名無し:
I wouldn’t want to walk alongside any of them.
