Women's Fashion & Style | Asian American Poll

ASIAN WOMEN'S FASHION & STYLE
(Updated Wednesday, Jan 22, 2025, 04:39:09 AM to reflect the 100 most recent valid responses.)

Which of the following fashion faux pas is committed most often by Asian women?
Wearing colors that are wrong for their coloring or features | 36%
Wearing cuts that are wrong for their proportions and/or size | 22%
Dressing inappropriately for the occasion | 24%
Wearing clearly outdated styles | 18%

Which of the following colors is generally most flattering on Asian women?
Black | 86%
Other | 14%

Which of the following fashion brands is most flattering on Asian women?
Calvin Klein | 12%
DKNY | 14%
Emporio Armani | 11%
Chanel | 7%
Versace | 9%
Prada | 11%
Bebe | 9%
Other/No Response | 27%

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a.d.:
hey!
God, now THAT is something that will keep me awake tonight. English men in bonnets :o) That is a fashion gaffe if I've ever heard of one. I dated an english dude for a while.. as far as I know he doesn't drink from bottles in private...
Dude, I think men are more into the lolita thing than people would like to admit... older men hit on me, like people double or triple my age. I look pretty young- I've been accused of being a 15 year old trying to buy cigs before. That was a shocker, esp cause that was this summer. Gross. Blech.
I wonder why people go to the extremes they do in fashion. For example, people whose identities are very much in the open-- people who consider themselves goth dressing in all black and painting their nails and hair black, etc. I kinda feel that fashion is restricting in these cases, and for me I think fashion should be about feeling free to do whatever you want. I can imagine someone who looked this or that would feel almost obliged to gravitate towards certain people when they're meeting people, or act in a certain way or kinda expect themselves to think in a certain way...
eurasiangirl Saturday, October 27, 2001 at 01:02:08 (PDT)

Eurasiangirl,

Hmmm...maybe that's how Britney got inspired.

Actually, I've not heard about the Lolita look in Japan. I've been in ol' Blighty for the last couple of years where I've only recently heard about a similar trends there. It seems as if they're going from punk to pop.

There's a do for people in their 30s and '40s called 'Back to School' where they wear their school uniform to a club (providing they can squeeze into them.) But a scarier trend is the baby trend. Whether it's inspired by Baby Spice, I don't know, but some men in their 40s are beginning to buy into the baby look, complete with custom-made playsuits, babygros, and frilly caps. It's one thing for British men to not know how to cook or do laundry (amongst other things), but this is going a bit far...

I give up. Maybe someone needs to do a Ph.D on Sartorial Regression, Temporal Dislocation, and the Decline of Civilisation:)
Asian Dominatrix Thursday, October 25, 2001 at 13:13:48 (PDT)

asian domina:
werd up again. :o)
I want to point out something though-- have you ever heard about "rori-kon" in Japan? It's short for lolita complex, and it's kind of a weird phenomena over there-- women want to look like lolitas, i.e. sexualized children. The men provide a great demand for this look too. You've probably seen the cartoons of perky titted, lithe-legged girls in schoolgirl's uniform and know exactly what I mean. I've seen books of pictures of street fashion in Japan, and indeed a lot of young twenties women are dressing themselves in frilly pink skirts and little white lacy bonnets. It's really quite disturbing. Japan has a few strange cultural idiosyncrasies, esp. with respect to fashion. I'm Japanese myself and while there are great things about Japanese culture, I'm kinda glad I was born and raised in the states. Besidse, I would have been labelled a weirdo in Japan anyway, and probably never really would have fit it. :o)
eurasiangirl Tuesday, October 23, 2001 at 18:29:52 (PDT)

Eurasiangirl,

Great thoughts there. I think part of the problem with the grannies doing Britney Spears--'mutton dressed like lamb'-- is that Western culture celebrates youth and beauty at the expense of everything else. I, for one, have not seen many Asian, black, or Latino women trying to look one-half or one-third their age. Is it because maybe those with a sense of the 'old world' still equate age and wisdom? Or maybe because as minority women in a sea of whites, we've learned not to put so much stock in conventional notions of beauty? Or maybe simply because we ethnic minority women usually manage to look 2/3 to 3/4 of our real age? It's not great when you're 15...but wonderful when you're over 30! (Just ask my mom and aunt who are in their 50s and can occasionally pass for late 30s.)

As for the carpe diem--I used to be the other way around: lamb dressed like mutton. Maybe it was growing up in the 80s, but I wanted to look like Jackie O with a little Dynasty thrown in. (Yes, at age 15, I liked suits! Sad but true.) It wasn't until I went to England that I realised no one dressed like that unless they were the Queen Mother;- That's when my skirts started to inch up bit by bit...(heh heh) All I knew was that I sure wasn't going to wait until I started looking like mutton dressed like lamb! (No use wearing a mini when your dentures get stuck...or when your wig flies off.)

Hence, the carpe diem. (Just remember--no minis AND cleavages; or minis AND midriffs...but hey, we all know that!)

Asian Dominatrix Monday, October 22, 2001 at 16:56:36 (PDT)

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