Japanese Cat Costumes: The New Cat's Meow
One can only amazement how cats feel when their owners (if that could ever be anyway) dress them up in kimonos, Napoleon hats, tiaras and baleful lace! Those costumes created and sold by Tokyo’s Takako Iwasa are entirely hysterical, but really folks, what is going on here anyway?
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In Japan the discussion for cute (kawaii) is screamed rather than spoken by Iwasa-san as she is known to her website visitors in Japan. Launched in 2,000, her situate features outrageous costumes for cats. She built up a fellow base through word of meow online and by 2001, she was selling costumes at the Parisian Printemps activity be contingent store in the tony Ginza commercial center in Tokyo.
“Costumes for dogs have been acclaimed for 20 years. But we didn’t have costumes for cats because we believed cats equerry themselves and don’t like to wear clothes. But, then I met my cat, Prin, and quickly thought, ‘I want to dress her up!’ ”
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