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For trannies only - a new online boutique
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Published Dec 17 2010
Pretty boys in Lagrangel
Last month Ami Takeuchi of Japan was placed second at the sixth annual Miss International Queen - celebrating transvestites and transgender contestants - in Pattaya, Thailand.
Now a website in Japan, called Lagrangel, has been launched to offer local transvestites and other men who want to look like women, a carefully selected range of the latest fashions.
Providing their fashion tastes are Akihabara style, that is. Known as "new-halves" locally, transvestites are widely accepted in Japanese society, with entertainers like Ai Haruna (previously Kenji Onishi) having successful careers.
Haruna won the Miss International Queen crown in Pattaya in 2009. Just under two years ago the electronics and otaku area of Akihabara, known for its maid cafes, opened its first "new-half" cafe, called New Type.
Now New Type has produced Lagrangel to offer clothes, wigs and more for its target market - which the website calls "otoko no ko," a play on words meaning "boy's daughter."
In truth, there's not a whole lot different here to any other online ladies fashion store, except the models are all men. But perhaps that's the point. The clothes range from ¥1,980 to ¥9,800.
