TOKYO'S YOUTH IN THE 80s!

THE ALL NEW 1989 BEST

BOOK EVER. ANOTHER ONE WHERE HOW WE DID NOT

KNOW IT EXISTED WE HAVE

NO IDEA. THIS IS ALL WE ARE ABOUT IN ONE BOOK. 300+ PAGES OF SUPER COOL JAPANESE STREET STYLE!

THE ULTIMATE REFERENCE. 

It has only been out there 35 years! But it is today, 25th March 2025, that we finally find it. Published by Parco, Tokyo's Youth is 336 pages of about 450 pictures of candid street fashion photos from Shibuya, Shinjuku and Harajuku between 1980 and 1989. And that is ALL WE EVER WANTED!

And the book works like this. A chronological walk through the streets of Tokyo and flip through a decade of Japanese fashion.

And then you just stop dead in your tracks at a picture like this. Look at that! Jackson Pollock in black and white. Ankle socks and pointy shoes. We could just stop here. It's one of the great looks of all time. Scroll down and buy the book now! What are you waiting for?

World class look no.2 out of 400 plus more. This book has colour pages too! The whole thing is as big a discovery as Girl's Fashion - and surely much of it is the same photographer - but this book has boys as well as girls and super saturated colour.

Not just boys but a SISTER BOY too. Serious leg warmer style sport socks ankle action too.

So much texture in this book! The chapter title on the right translates as STRIPED FOLKLORE SHIRT. The detail is in the captions - every picture is perfectly annotated.

Love these two... Les Coqs Sportifs...

You want to know how much detail this book goes into? This is the caption to the right of the girl on the right (all of this easily accessed with translate phone apps btw).
 

I was wearing the most flashy clothes when I went to the club.

May 2nd, 1987, Shibuya

I came to see it/Monthly income 100,000 yen, fashion expenses 10,000 yen/154cm, 47kg/Living with family in Ikebukuro/Today I went to a friend's live show. ■PROFILE ……………19 years old (female), office worker (computer related)

Cheap white, cotton/Samantha Mosmos (Laforet Harajuku)/Purchased April 1987/11,800 yen■T-shirt ✓ Second-hand clothing store (next to Laforet Harajuku)/Purchased March 1987

It's not just those pictures on that page either, the whole book is that detailed! 

It's called TOKYO'S YOUTH but for the most part we are talking teenagers. This kid gets in on account of his total super cool big buttoned quilted jacket moment (and his eighties-power-dressed mom).

And for how to position your hands to highlight the interlocked Chanel CC... can't not include this guy.

Back cover lovers. They should have put this on the front! YOU ARE HERE! that bold line of text says... The 1980's were a time of excitement and chaos!

All we can say is that this book really is quite outrageously good - even by our superbook standards! We can't think of a single IDEA customer that wouldn't want it. To that end we have extracted a whole TEN copies out of the world. Clearly, that is not enough. But it is a great start for the early, fastest fingers, first button-pressers. GET A COPY on the hot pink button below.