Gyaru
ギャル / 1990s– / Style / Japanese Street Fashion
The Shibuya-born style that inverted school-approved correctness with tans, bleached hair and heavy makeup — communal fashion updated by magazines and the street as one.
Tanned skin / Bright hair / Emphatic eye makeup / Shibuya 109 shop culture
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and exemplary cases · Extracting principles that transfer beyond dress
- Type
- Observe the letters and signs of the era and community referred to
- Composition
- Translate silhouette and proportion into composition
- Material
- Verify the material conditions: cloth, tailoring, the wearer's body
- Caution
- Never peel off the garment's signs alone. Verify who wore it, why, and against what.
- Further study
- The gyaru magazines egg and Popteen / kogyaru, ganguro, yamanba / gyaru circles and community