Fearing Crime, Japanese Wear the Hiding Place
Japanese designer Aya Tsukioka's skirt can be flipped up to disguise the wearer as a vending machine. The urban camouflage option is supposed to make women feel safer in the sketchier parts of Tokyo.
Fascinating article, and such cool design concepts. I took her designs at first as merely something fun and Dadaesque -- which is still true -- but, as inconceiveable as it is to us Westerners, I think it is possible the fear of crime tip is actually the main selling point. This is the land of the air-conditioned necktie after all.
"These ideas might strike foreigners as far-fetched,” [Tsukioka said], "but in Japan, they can become reality."
More of her urban camouflage here.
posted by Ammie at 11:33 AM
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Oh, I just love these. Wouldn't it be great if they came in habitat-packs? Like for Oakland you could get a broken phone booth or a bus bench, while Boulder's would be a, well, boulder. Or a white person. That would blend in, too.
This is more complicated, more military-applicable, but also from Japan. Check it:
http://www.time.com/time/2003/inventions/invinvisible.html
Sweet. I only trust vending machines in the shape of petite Asian women anyway. So now I'm thinking, "Bonus!"
I want the jumbo hair weave and pool of vomit (Now, With Scavenging Pigeons!) habitat pack.
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