So, maybe you're wondering what is Decora?
Decora is one of the most famous street style among Japanese youth, mostly recognized by their childish look. Decora style mainly consists of bright-colored outfits in two or more layers (often mized in different colors), colorful leg warmers or socks, tons of accessories such as colorful necklaces, bracelets, hair clips, and sometimes they even use small toys as additional accesories. Moreover, many of them wear pajama as their clothes. For more details, you can take a look at these pictures below
Those are the examples of Decora look. This style is sometimes also mixed with the Sweet Lolita or Oshare Kei look (further information will be included later). For a good reference, I recommend you to buy a Japanese fashion magazine such as FRUiTS or KERA!.
For a comparation, this is how FRUiTSlooks (note: FRUiTSonly consists of pictures)
And these are the examples of KERA! magazine
To buy either FRUiTS or KERA!, you can visit Kinokuniya bookstore. They provide many Japanese fashion magazines, and also Japanese music magazines (I always visit Kinokuniya to buy KERA! ^^). Those magazines are amazingly fabulous, yet also expensive. So I suggest you to bring more money while visiting Kinokuniya or you'll get home empty-handed like I often do T.T
If you don't want to spend lots of money just to get a reference on how the style looks like, you can search through Google, Yahoo!, or anywhere else you want to. The most important thing in Decora style is experiment. Do many experiments of mixing and matching all the colorful stuff in your wardrobe. The next tip is confidence. Perhaps you'll find out that it's rather embarrassing to dress in Decora style while hanging out in malls because it's considered queer and unusual by people who doesn't know the style. My suggestion is, find a friend or more who is also interested in the style so that you can hang out together without feeling too embarrassed. Or if you can't find any, pursue your friends then! Guide them to enter the colorful world of Decora, and who knows if they fall in love with the style in the end? <3
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