Finish of the road for Bodyline.
Harajuku is named certainly one of Tokyo’s most trendy districts, and even throughout the neighborhood, Takeshita Avenue, a.okay.a. Takeshita-dori, is understood for its significantly distinctive types…and even by Takeshita Avenue requirements, Bodyline stands out. Positioned on the second ground of the constructing subsequent to the well-known department of Marion Crepes, Bodyline makes a speciality of cosplay outfits and Lolita fashions, and for 21 years has been supplying all the things from billow lacy attire to catgirl costumes for patrons who climb the crimson staircase main as much as the store.
In line with Takeshita Avenue’s fame for being each eclectic and inexpensive, most of Bodyline’s outfits are available at 5,000 yen (US$36) or much less, and due to a sale that began on October 1, costs have simply gotten even decrease. However whereas which will sound like nice information for followers of the store, the rationale for the sale is that after greater than twenty years in enterprise, Bodyline might be completely closing.
“Thanks for you a few years of patronage,” says the promotional picture for Bodyline’s closing sale, together with the announcement that the shop might be closing “on the finish of December.” It’s value making an allowance for that this may not truly imply that Bodyline will stay open till December 31, as many companies in Japan take just a few days off on both aspect of New Yr’s day, which is the biggest vacation in Japan. Another excuse to make your ultimate Bodyline purchasing run sooner reasonably than later? As proven within the photograph under, a number of the reductions are extraordinarily deep, resembling objects marker down from 7,699 yen to 770 yen (from US$55 to US$5.50) and from 1,099 yen to 110 yen, and people objects will solely be accessible whereas the present inventory lasts.
On the brilliant aspect, the store’s closing gained’t imply the top of the model itself, as Bodyline’s on-line gross sales will proceed. Nonetheless, with Harajuku being the corporate’s solely bodily location, that is going to be the final alternative to see the objects in individual before you purchase, so in case you’ve received an curiosity in Lolita vogue or cosplay, Bodyline Harajuku ought to be getting a spot in your to-visit listing whereas in Tokyo.
Location info
Bodyline
Tackle: tokyo-to, Shibuya-ku Jingumae 1-6-15, Harajuku Junes 2nd ground
東京都渋谷区神宮前1丁目6−15 原宿ジュネス2F
Open 11 a.m.-8 p.m.
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