J-Fashion

This is an image that demonstrates the decora style of fashion, Its trademark is a large amount of accessories and trinkets added to the outfit, mainly in the hair and on the face. The outfits include a great deal of matching, and generally follow a color scheme that harmonizes the chaotic nature of wearing a lot of accessories. One of the most common accessories of this fashion style is bandages, usually placed over the nose.  Decora wearers also place stickers on their faces as sort of mock-freckles, The fashion style is very childlike, but is exclusively worn by adolescents. 

Decora has recently become a large part of the American Lolita community, which is where i got exposure to it (not that I am part of the Lolita community..) This style has always interested me because of the shear mass of colors and textures, but somehow the outfits do not look garish or clashy. In person in Harajuku the outfits are even more colorful and bright, but still maintain the level of cohesion that I enjoy. 

I've also always enjoyed the Fairy Kei fashion style, because it's almost a more toned down way to rep. Lolita fashion. 

These styles are easier to miss on the streets than decora, but still are different than what a Japanese person would usually wear. The style is characterized by pastel colors (where decora is mainly neons and bright colors,) character prints, and flowy, puffy dresses/skirts. The style once again is very childlike, but almost more so than that of the decora style. 

The clothing is very soft and "feminine" (i hate using that term.) This models outfit is so stark against the natural background that she almost looks blurry. The most interesting thing about this clothing style is usually the shoes. They are almost always the chunky bottom mary janes or the pastel colored hightops:

This style has always been interesting to me because I've always loved pastel colors and cute things. I was a tomboy for most of my life, so I never wore dresses or "liked" the color pink. This fashion style has always made me a little jealous, which is probably why i love it so much now.