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More on “Bloomers”

In my Feb. 17 column in The Japan Times, I wrote about ブルマー (burumā), the high-cut, body-hugging gym shorts most Japanese schoolgirls wore from the mid 1960s through the late 1990s. I normally pair each column with a photograph, but … Continue reading

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