Slippers

[tikistitch]

So, usually when we're browsing Japanese auctions, we look quickly at the image and decide if it's hot or not, and then make a bid. Sometimes, if we remember, and maybe after we've already sent off for the item, we'll run the description through a translation program. However, in the case of Yahoo Japan, this is often not terribly helpful, as a lot of the verbiage we've seen goes something like, "Please do me the favor of not dishonoring the memory of our ancestors through your idiotic behavior in this transaction." In other words, not very much in terms of describing the item at hand.

So, ya gotta read the pictures.

So, we read this picture....



And though, "OMG kawaii, slippers (it even says so, on the package, in English) that go around your little toesies, with teensy pictures of space ships & etc. on each piggie."

Well, then we got them.

And we, you know, counted.

Comments

[moonlightnrain.livejournal.com]

What... is it? I'm very confused (this is not new, I know).

[homestar.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing they do not actually fit around your toes so much as they give you fake toes. Like a boxing glove ... but for you feet, and also with fake toes.

Or something.

Unless there are lots of four-toed people in Japan, which is cause for alarm.

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

Unless there are lots of four-toed people in Japan, which is cause for alarm.

Huh. Maybe. And they have kawaii kitty ears!

[aoi-no-neko.livejournal.com]

I had a suspicion you were not human, and this proves it! Four toed aliens!

[jeepersjournal.livejournal.com]

Maybe you're supposed to put them on your feet, and pretend you're a cartoon character since they usually only have 4 fingers?

[sublate.livejournal.com]

A real fan would have cut off a toe without a second thought.

[twotone]

Huh. If it didn't say "Slippers" on them, I'd assume they were meant to go between your toes, like those toe-separators you wear for pedicures. For a while, I think it was trendy to separate your toes for health-support reasons.

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

Since I wrote this, I've seen a similar item on another J web site that was described as something like, "toe support," so I think the "go between the toes" theory is correct.