Face masks as fashion in Japan

From Tokyo Times:

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The Japanese habit of wearing masks during hay fever season may well be what created a fondness for such facial fashion amongst certain people, rather bizarrely resulting in the birth of 'mask idols'.

The link also includes photos of plaster-cast and eye-patch fashions.

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Reader comment:

Kevin says:

Threadless has a tee reminiscent of the mask idol girls.