Japanese School Girls and their Cute and Fashionable Accessories

Japanese school girls have now pushed forward into the fore front of Japanese fashion. This age demographic of Japan is now responsible for some of the most interesting and also most outlandish fashions the world has ever seen. Their style has hit big in Japan and now it's bursting out and spreading the world over. I already talked breifly about Japanese school girls and their interesting take on the standard school girl uniform and how it's become a symbol of youth culture in Japan and the world over, but in this hub I'm hoping to extend that initial concept to the accessories Japanese girls are obsessed with.

In Japan, Accessories are a huge deal. Not Just for girls and women, but for all demographics. In a society like Japan where everyone is forced to wear the same sorts of uniforms for work and school, accessories become the only way to differentiate one's self from others. Thus accessories have become high fashion and big business in Japan, and no other group leads the charge more than Japanese school girls. 

You may think that phones aren't really classified as accessories. But let me tell you, Japanese school girls had a direct affect on the development of mobile phones as we know them now. Back in the early days of mobile phone production, designs that were coming out were big, clunky, grey or black, and not at all stylish. But as they got cheaper and smaller, school girls in Japan adopted the new technology in mass, well before they caught on big with teenagers elsewhere in the world.

Japanese girls began to spruce up their new phones by adding stickers, and jewels and other bits of glam. Anything to make the basic mobile phone into a fashion forward accessory. Soon Mobile phone manufacturers realized that they needed to start making phones that had more than features. Phones in Japan suddenly became sexy and stylish at a time when phones in the US were still grey and black, Japanese phone makers started to come out with radical colors and designs.

School girls are still pushing the envelope phone design and even usage still, and if you quiz any school girl here in Japan and asked what their most important, "cannot leave home without it" accessory was, the biggest answer would of course be their keitai.

If a phone is key to a Japanese school girls daily life, than why not add an accessory to that? Key chains and phone "straps" as they're called in Japan are huge. Everyone, has them on their phones. But the phenomenom started with Japanese school girls who found their phones to be another fertile place to attach a bit of style to their daily outfits. Some girls take it to the extreme and have staps and key chains hanging off every available loop and zipper on their hand bags and mobile phones.

They can be everything from sushi key chains to disney characters, it all depends on the girls personal taste. But if you ride the subway, you are garaunteed to see girls furiously typing away on their phones with more than one bobble haning off of it. They seem to get in the way sometimes, but actually they do have a purpose beyond fashion, and that's to allow for a phone to be easily pulled out of a hand bag the moment a text message arrives.

If you're a girl in Japan, your bag is your best friend. Some girls go a little too far, and there are cases of hand bag addiction in Japan, but one of the greatest symbols of femininity in Japan is the hand bag. Alot of women in Japan own closests full and even put handbag purchases on their monthly budgets. 

Guchi, Coach and other high end bags are of course popular, but so too are the little known and trendy bags you find in boutique stores here in Japan. It's all about show casing your personal style and taste. Of course they serve a purpose too. 

For Japanese school girls, their designer bags are like their home away from home. A place where they can stash all their daily essentials. In Japan's go go society, you might only get a chance to go back home for 6 hours of sleep, so a fashionable and useful bag is a key accessory for girls here in Japan. 

This is an up and coming trend that started several years ago in Japan and I've heard is now being found elsewhere in the world. Rolling suitcases are now being dragged around everywhere in Japan, by school girls and grown up school girls who are now fully fledged female professionals. The only thing is, these suitcases are not for travel, they are for daily use. 

Go to any shopping district in Japan and you will see women and girls dragging these behind them. They are like an extension of their handbags, a place to store even more vital accessories for daily life in Japan's fast paced society and now they have become another essential accessory in their own right.