Stitch Sock Touch

Stitch Sock Touch
Originally uploaded by tikistitch

One of those "you gotta be Japanese or totally in to J Pop culture" to get it, but featuring Stitch!

To be brief, schoolgirl style in recent years has included sloppy socks. But in order to keep loose socks from falling down and tripping you (which would be awfully cute in an anime, but probably less so in real life) kids will sometimes literally GLUE them to their legs. If you read the original web site, there's tons of warning about how using this stuff may basically cause your legs to dry up and blow away. Bu, hey, it's all for fashion!

Extra silly: when I first saw the picture, I thought it was something called "Sucktouch."

Behind the mask

Not sure if it's the threat of swine flu, Stitch's popularity, or a combination thereof, but there seems to be a bumper crop of Stitch surgical face masks available in Japan this season.

What? Stitch surgical face masks? Yeah, it's traditional in Japan that when you get a runny nose or a cough, you go out wearing a face mask, so as not to infect anyone else. Naturally, since little kids tend to be little germ incubators, they make cutie masks for kids, featuring beloved Disney characters. (Just like, in the USA, if you get a boo boo, you get to have Sponge Bob or Disney Princess Band Aids.) But, the sheer variety of Stitch masks we've seen lately is boggling! They have Cutie Stitch, Leroy and Stitch, even pink and purple Stitch.