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I think we're being a bit harsh on "Neo-Mori" (Kind Of)

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Recently, I've been deep in the archives of the internet archiving for the Mori Kei Image Archive (over 6000 posts now!) and in that time, I've noticed a troubling trend that I feel like I should address here. Specifically, I've noticed an uptick in people absolutely bashing on "neo-mori". Now, you might be confused, based on my last post about neo-mori where I was pretty critical of it as a whole. So let me explain. First, I still have very mixed feelings about the term, due to its attachment to fast fashion, it's artificial inflation by SPINNS, and these days due to its cluttering up of mori hashtags with SPINNS brand photos instead of grassroots mori community content. So that part hasn't changed. However, what I am noticing across social media, mainly tumblr, is criticism about the style of neo-mori. Not the brand pushing it, it's capitalistic tendencies, or the unnecessary rename. These individuals are criticizing the style specifically. And thi...
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Biblioethica Jul/Aug Prompt: Clutter

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The prompt for this month is clutter. I'm a bit low on energy this month as I am at home recovering from an injury. So here is some mori-esque clutter around my room! I have a lot of tiny knick-knacks from my travels around Japan. So that takes up a lot of space in my room at the moment. But it's happy clutter that reminds me of wonderful times. These flowers are from my grandmother's celebration of life service, and the little Kappa reminds me of Tsuyama! My mori magazine collection and Mashiko-yaki plates from huhbok-san. Artwork from Iingezo  and trinkets from my Japan travels. I collected one keychain or charm from each place I visited! Holly Hobby vintage blanket from my mom. Closet stuff. Lego and fake flowers, and a cute picture of my dear friend! We traveled to Miyazaki-ken together. A little memorial spot for my grandma. My favorite incense! I had to leave my cute incense burner in Japan, sadly. My inherited plants. My brother abandoned them when he moved to Korea,...
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So, does anyone else remember those Grimoire tights?

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Today's post is a bit of a side tangent that really doesn't matter all that much in the grand scheme of things. Really, I just wanted to talk about it!  So, does anyone remember those tights? You know the ones. The ones that were in every street snap in the early to mid 2010s? I spoke about the Grimoire shop a while back in my post on Dolly Kei , but something I forgot to touch on was one of their (arguably) biggest impacts on the J-fashion community at large: the infamous tattoo tights. This was such a short lived trend, but it was EVERYWHERE. Every J-fashion community, closely related to the Grimoire store and the Dolly Kei trend or not, was obsessed with these. ( There are enough image of them even in the mori community that I was able to give them  their own tag on the image archive !)  A mori influencer at the time even did a review on them (and the dress Grimoire also produced).  And let me tell you. I was hooked! Everywhere you turned, on LiveJournal, Faceboo...
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