Is that a vending machine in your pocket…?
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007 at 8:36 am…Or are you just not happy to see me?
Alice Cooper had a watch that turned into a lifeboat; now Aya Tsukioka has a skirt that turns into a vending machine. The Japanese fashion designer came up with the idea for the garment as a way for a woman walking alone to disguise herself from pursuers. The skirt incorporates a concealed sheet, printed with an image of a vending machine, that the wearer can hide behind. A deluxe model, seen in the picture, has a 4-sided version. So as long as those pursuers don’t round a corner, see the vending machine and decide to buy a beer…
It reminds me of the women, the name for which I’ve forgotten, so that I can’t look them up, who, in the 19th century I think it was, used to commit thefts and afterwards, by means of ingeniously constructed garments, change their appearance in a twinkling of an eye.
Speaking of Japanese inventions, Nissan’s electric Pivo 2 concept car sets my little heart aflutter, not only because it’s adorable and enviro-friendly but because it can go sideways into parallel parking spots. I’ve obviously come a long way into middle age since my days of yearning for a black Trans Am with the fires of Hell spraypainted on the hood.
October 23rd, 2007 at 3:47 pm
Oh, Japan.
October 23rd, 2007 at 3:49 pm
Huh. The rest of my comment got eaten.
I also said: “There’s something almost surreal about that. I’m not sure it would work where I live right now, though: not many vending machines on an English country lane.”
October 23rd, 2007 at 3:56 pm
Now…if it was a Japanese skirt that turned into a JAPANESE PANTY VENDING MACHINE then we would have a winner!!
Lemon, Lemon, Lemon…ka CHINGA!!
(So…no sign of them over there, eh?)
October 24th, 2007 at 3:10 pm
i seen cosplay like that
the next item to go with that outfit
sawnoff shotgun
October 24th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
I am ashamed to say the panty vending machine thing occurred to me as well.
October 26th, 2007 at 6:45 am
No sightings of panty vending machines to report, I’m afraid - not even in Akihabara, which had 5-story sex shops and comic stores with floors given over to hentai manga. Maybe panties just aren’t the in thing anymore?