\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nit\u2019s funny how\u00a0\u201cFrench maid\u201d has been replaced by\u00a0\u201cJapanese pastiche of French maid\u201d in the popular consciousness.
\nI assume the French maid thing got started when English aristocrats hired them as fashion consultants, and it seems fair now that fashion and food have also migrated from Paris to Tokyo.
\nHonestly Japan did the same thing with \u201cgirl in a bunny suit\u201d, \u201cattractive young nurse\u201d, \u201cuniformed schoolgirl\u201d and \u201cnun\u201d, it\u2019s like they\u2019re trying to catch up
\nwell you see during the Meiji Restoration under intense pressure to compete on the global stage and avoid being colonised by Western powers Japan sent out envoys to Europe and America who brought back novel ideas and vital reforms for the army, navy, civil service, and pornography,
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Also it’s not really that Tokyo replaced Paris, more that there are two distinct fashion circuits now, the older New York-Paris-Milan Atlantic one and a new LA-Tokyo Pacific one that Australia’s probably better networked to.
A lot of “streetwear” stuff over the last two decades has to do with the emergence of this new circuit, as the capital of the American activewear and athletic shoe industries Portland’s probably a more important node in it than SF or Seattle, really.
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