November 2011
60 posts
GAWS: The Miyuki-zoku: Japan’s First Ivy Rebels →
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The first Japanese to adopt elements of the Ivy League Look were a youth tribe called the Miyuki-zoku, who suddenly appeared in the summer of 1964. The group’s name came from their storefront loitering on Miyuki Street in the upscale Ginza shopping neighborhood (the suffix “zoku” means…
Most ExeRent bRog: FACT or FICTION →
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Prince Charles Is a Clotheshorse Who Gets His Shoelaces Ironed
Prince Charles employs 133 staff to look after him and Camilla, more than 60 of them domestics: chefs, cooks, footmen, housemaids, gardeners, chauffeurs, cleaners, and his three personal valets—gentleman’s gentlemen—whose sole responsibility is the care of their royal master’s extensive wardrobe and choosing what he is...
