Will Miss #153 - adult pajama costumes

On holidays and at festivals (and sometimes during sales at shops), I see people wearing a particular type of adult pajama costume. The one in the picture above is Stitch from Lilo and Stitch, but I've seen people wearing dragons, eggplants, and other weird things. I imagine there is some company in Japan that makes this particular kind of costume which resembles a baby's sleeper. I don't know if they were designed for people to sleep in or to look silly in when promoting things in public, but it's always amusing when I see someone out wearing one.


I'll miss seeing grown-ups in clothes that look like they were made for a baby.

Will Miss #108 - fabulous costumes

Japan doesn't celebrate Halloween, so you don't often see people in costumes. However, on the occasion that people dress up for some sort of special appearance or celebration, the costumes almost always look great. I have never seen a Japanese person in a shabby or amateurish costume that looks like it was sewn together by their grandmothers or cobbled together from bits of painted junk that they assembled in the garage. They always look like they did their homework, took their time, and invested some scratch into looking the part.

I'll miss being impressed by these efforts to really inhabit the roles they're playing.