Mina-san!
You need to listen to this one just for the shop assistant

Happy Wednesday!

Quite a few store clerks in Japan tend to be a bit aggressive. Even if you just want to have a cursory look at jewelry or clothing items just to see what they have in department stores, you are almost assured to get a shop clerk right in your face recommending something or asking (at times pressuring)you to try something on. A good expression to learn is ：見てるだけです。 Mitteru dake desu. This means…”Just looking, thanks”　Comes in very handy here. But even that sometimes doesn’t work. I guess they under an insurmountable amount of pressure to sell.

Yeah I definitely experienced this in Japan. I don’t really like aggressive sales people especially when I don’t understand what they are saying and what they are handing me is really expensive! EeK! is 試着する ok for everything?

Good lesson, I was meaning to get around to learning about getting dressed. The verb for headgear wasn’t covered though; it’s kakeru isn’t it?

I’m not a fan of interfering shop assistants, but the most I usually get asked is ‘are you alright?’, to which I bust out the trusty ‘just looking, thanks’.

Speaking of clothes, my friend had a Japanese fashion magazine, which was dedicated mostly to lolita goth stuff. Some of the girls look cute in the frilly dresses, but you’d look ridiculous leaving the house in that garb. How did this come about, and how popular is it? It seems to be simply a fashion trend rather than a short-sighted, paradoxical “ideology” like that of western goffz.

Javizy, the lolita goth girls, the little bo peep girls, etc, they go out in public like that. it’s just a fashion for them.
however, i have to say, i think the old women with purple hair are stranger than them.

as for headgear, there are also かかる and かぶる, depending on what you’re wearing. but those are coming up soon.
this is a 3-parter!
we can enjoy Kinoshita’s theme song many more times. hahahaha

do you guys think Kinoshita will actually buy anything?

marky

Shiroi Nekoさん、
thanks for pointing this out!
we’ll look into it ASAP
hope it’s not causing too much trouble in the meantime!!
申し訳ございません！

marky