/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

if i actually wore hakama, would people care as much as my anxiety thinks they would? it's basically just a long skirt, and i'm someone for whom wearing a skirt wouldn't be strange. still i'm petrified of the old white women in this town knowing the depths of my otaku-ness. i just love taishou era school uniforms for boys, when traditional japanese dress was first mixing with western influences

[Anonymous No.]

>>45742767
You never look as good as you imagine you will when you wear something exotic.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45742816
i expect myself to look like shit as always, don't get me wrong. i'm just wondering are hakama really that exotic? i know how i look in long pleated skirts, how much really changes when the leg areas are separated into pants and the waist is cinched with a bow

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>>45742816

[Anonymous No.]

>i'm petrified of the old white women in this town knowing the depths of my otaku-ness
I want to take a guess: you are American.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45742908
mea culpa

[Anonymous No.]

>>45742908
Let me guess, European?

[Anonymous No.]

>>45742767
I wear one once or twice per week because it's part of my kendo uniform. I can't imagine wearing one casually.

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>>45743143
i'd crop it a few inches up, kendo hakama are almost ankle length, right? and are you used to wearing skirts/dresses normally? i can see how it might be inconvenient for a guy who's used to more fitting pants

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>>45742767
Remember to never go full Ken-sama(may he rest in peace)

[Anonymous No.]

>>45742931
I've seen two women cosplaying (both times goth loli, or maybe they were going for Victorian) on a normal day, one at the shopping centre and another at a farmers market, where I am.
My point being, if you weren't America, you probably could do it. I wonder what it is; despite being purported as the most 'individualist' country, Americans tend to shut-down people who are /too/ individual very hard.

'In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them'.
- De la démocratie en Amérique

[Anonymous No.]

>>45743222 (numbers)

it's oddly like japan in that way. we have a big culture of policing what other people say/do/feel/look like/etc. it's all just performing social expectations, shutting up and keeping your head down. i'm just wondering whether my trans-ness is as low as i can go in the eyes of social conservatives, or if wearing jap crap would draw even more ire to me

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>>45743198
>i'd crop it a few inches up, kendo hakama are almost ankle length, right?
Hakama is hakama. It hangs just below the ground.
>and are you used to wearing skirts/dresses normally?
I don't wear skirts or dresses because I'm not a faggot. And a hakama is neither a skirt nor a dress, it's a pair of pants and has two separate legs.
>i can see how it might be inconvenient for a guy who's used to more fitting pants
The inconvenience has nothing to do with that.

You sound like a faggot who wants to wear it for gay reasons. Please kill yourself so that you don't sully the culture of my country with your sexual disposition.

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>>45743250
correct, i am a faggot doing this for faggot reasons (just wearing clothes like a normal person)
anyway if cropping something 3 inches up is sullying your culture, it deserves to be sullied :3c

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>>45743244
>>45743275
What I said (>>45743222) applies to you too. I didn't want to assume without further evidence but you just provided it. The American left would also do exactly what you said: 'big culture of policing what other people say/do/feel/look like/etc', for you would not tolerate people having a discussion about the benefits of fascism.

In my country, I did exactly that back when I was in high school, in history class, with the teacher. He, naturally, disagreed, but we had a casual discussion of it.

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>>45743346
i don't care what the left would do! i'm not a leftist!!
i'm just wondering if i can wear japanese secret pants without old people staring at me. right now the answers i've gotten range from 'kill yourself' to 'let me tell you why the nazis were misunderstood.' i know i shouldn't be expecting much more from 4chin, but damn

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>>45742882
Depends on what the rest of the outfit looks like. Do you intend on wearing a full on taishou era outfit or just the pants paired with something else?

[Anonymous No.]

>>45743950
honestly i'm ashamed of even considering this. i've thoroughly dropped the idea

[Anonymous No.]

>>45744051
Good, fuck you. Stay away from my culture.