last summer when i went to japan to stay at my grandma's house, i told my relatives i wanted to go clothes shopping. one of my aunts recommended i go to a youth clothing store nearby (i am a youth) which turned out to be an Avail store. Avail also happens to be a sub-label/brand of Shimamura Group, along with Shimamura. Avail and Shimamura announce collabs with various intelllectual properties like several times a week. the only reason i remembered them before going to the store was because i kept seeing them on anime collab news sites like
this several times. the rate at which they chug out lifestyle goods scares me tbh.
anyhow at that specific Avail store, they did have a lineup of jirai kei stuff along with other alternative fashion clothes. i remember seeing ryousangata, tenshi kaiwai, and emo-ish stuff that was labeled with the vague-sounding サブカル ("sabukaru", subcul
ture). some of the jirai kei and ryousangata ones were collabs with fashion influencers who dressed in those ways. there were also thick-soled shoes, like chunky sneakers and accessorized platform mary janes like the ones seen in this chapter.
now you may be wondering, did i but anything? yeah, i bought mostly cinnamonroll/x hatsune miku stuff. a lot of it was from the clearance section, probably because there werent a lot of people my size coming to this store.