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When Tokyo girls are in need of fresh air… A clover, a bee, Yuu… the idea of a Mori Girl

Image source: Honey & Clover (manga and movie), H magazine (pictures by Kidera Norio) We definitely live in a tough world, where the slightest detail of a local culture can nurture the obsession of people living 8000 miles away, thanks to Internet the beautiful. Do you know Mori girls? They’re Japanese, cute, girlish (no, this is not a pleonasm), dress like the little red riding hood, except they’re a little less red and their “hood” a little more urban; if Lolita fashion tastes too strong to you, you should like these rather natural outfits, in tune with a certain peace of mind that stressed out city people crave so much for. The thing is, living in Paris, I haven’t had a chance to meet a real one, yet. Lolitas, we know; Mori girls, too fresh. As far as I know, they could be a huge lie fed by the government, some gay E.T. trying to look natural to the human population, hippie crackheads eating tourists and field mice, or not even exist, who knows, that Photoshop thing’s got pretty