Yet today she is one of an increasing number of well-spoken young Japanese who have forsaken the carefully tailored clothes churned out by the world's top designers and chosen a look reminiscent of student activists fighting riot police in Europe and the United States in the 1960s and 1970s. There is no easy explanation for why so many young Japanese, after a decadelong infatuation with sleek designer clothes, have chosen an anti-establishment look in the last two years. Some observers contend that today's adolescents, familiar only with affluence, have more experience and confidence dressing themselves than their parents had. Poor and overworked, their parents toiled to turn war-torn Japan into one of the world's richest nations, and had little time to create a distinctive look for themselves. It's a generation that you'd call 'Anything Goes'.
Nothing is sacred.
Anything that they can make by themselves or anything that they find interesting will do,'' she said. For fans of electronic garage, house and techno music, the design houses of choice include Under Cover and Milk. Hippies achieve their look with clothes from design houses such as Bathing Ape. Its clothes are easy to spot because of the bright colors and the mascot ape that appears everywhere from camouflage patterns to buttons. For the past 10 years, Shoichi Aoki has closely followed Japanese street fashion.