Unexpected Style

So, you can get a bit used to seeing those impossibly stylish people on The Sartorialist - you know, those people who don't need to read glossy magazines or follow fashion because they have an indisputable eye for what works, and the aplomb to carry off something that would often be distinctly ill-advised for everybody else...

But this was something different - even for Japanese street style...

Picture: Street Peeper via Portfoli

The umbrella has little Totoros on it, and means that what might just look like an oversized paint-spattered smock suddenly looks edgy and unique paired with that astonishingly beautiful umbrella, which is really more like art than a cute cartoon has any right to be.