Found This Week: Second Call
Twenty-five new listings this week and twenty-two of them are the same shape: a Japanese gravure idol on a phone card or a QUO card, unused, fifty dollars or thirty-five. Asahi Geino Secret, Monthly Entame, BOMB, EX Taishu, Doyo. Fourteen from Asahi Geino Secret alone. They are in the store, they are all photographed, and one of them stands in for the lot below. The rest of this post is the eleven from last week that did not fit, now that price says it is their turn.
Rockin' Jelly Bean Erosty Pop Back Print Tee, Yellow, 1998, M
Held over from last week because nine things were $150 and only eight fit. Erosty Pop, Los Angeles, 1998, RJB's label before Erostika. Large illustrated graphic across the back, small chest logo on the front, dated 1998 in the print. Excellent, colors bright, no cracking on either print, size M. The 1998 hoodie ran last week. This is the tee from the same year and label, different garment, different print. (Yellow in 1998 was a choice. It still is.) $150.
Erosty Pop Cheerleader Ninjas Tee, Yellow, Fits S
Same label, late 90s. Halftone pin-up with a katana over a black polka dot circle, Cheerleader Ninjas across the chest, Rockin' Jelly Bean Art Graphics around the rim, sleeve print that reads Cheerleader in English and ninja in kanji, Erosty Pop! Los Angeles. Single stitch collar. The size tag washed blank, so it is sized by tape: 17 in chest, 24 in long, fits a small. Print soft and worn in with light cracking. (A size tag that faded before the print did. That is a good blank.) $100.
Erostika Devil's Cheerleaders Tee, White, 2011, M
Thirteen years and one ocean after the Cheerleader Ninjas tee, RJB drew cheerleaders again, this time for his own Tokyo label. Pin-up with pom-poms against a devil-red sun and a hot rod, Famous Erostika of Mondo, dated 2011 in the print. White, 100% cotton, size M, excellent, colors bright. Put it next to the yellow one above and you can watch the linework tighten over a decade. (He kept the cheerleaders. He upgraded the car.) $100.
Neighborhood Daylight C-JKT, Charcoal, S, Japan
Neighborhood, Sendagaya, Tokyo. Shawl collar, single snap, two patch pockets, charcoal cotton fully lined in navy, product code TSNH-JK-W01. The W is the tell: this is from Neighborhood's women's line, and it is cut like it, 15.5 in chest, 24 in long, so a women's S or a men's XS. Specification No. 3204 on the woven label, made in Japan. Light wear, clean lining. (NBHD women's pieces do not cross the ocean often. This one did and it is small.) $100.
HUF x Erostika Triple Triangle Tee, Black, M, Japan Release
HUF's triple triangle with an RJB pin-up seated against a skull inside it, Erostika Harajuku wordmark below, Japan market release with the HUF Japan tag. Small chest logo, big back graphic. Light cracking on the white triangle print, no holes, no stains, size M. Two weeks ago the HUF x Sorayama tee ran in this series. Different artist, same skate company, same idea: let the Japanese guy draw the logo. (HUF has better taste in collaborators than in blanks. Made in Honduras.) $80.
The Naughty CheerHeadz Erosty Pop Long Sleeve, Black, Fits S
Third cheerleader reference in one post, which tells you something about the artist. Raglan long sleeve, black, red snake and hibiscus graphic, Naughty Cheer-Headz by Erosty Pop! No size tag, sized by tape at 17 in chest and 23 in long, fits a small. Uneven fading across the black. (The snake is the point. The cheerleaders are the brand.) $75.
Naughty CheerHeadz long sleeve
Fuji Rock Festival 2012 Tee, Rockin' Jelly Bean Art, Cream, Fits XS
Official festival tee, Naeba, 2012. RJB reclining figure against a rising sun over the festival grounds on the front, the full three day lineup on the back: Stone Roses, Radiohead, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds among the headliners. The festival tag at the side seam is cut, so no size marked, fits an XS. Small mark on one sleeve hem, in the photos, graphic clean. (A festival shirt where the artist matters more than the lineup. Rare.) $75.
Cootie Productions Honeycomb Waffle Thermal, Gray, S, Japan
Cootie got its own spotlight last Wednesday, and this is the piece that was too cheap to lead it. Gray honeycomb waffle knit, raglan sleeves, 100% cotton, the Garment Workers, Est. 2000 tag. Excellent condition, 18.5 in chest, 23 in long, size small. (The best thing in the store for $70 that nobody will notice.) $70.
G-Star Raw 3301 Super Slim, Anthracite, 34x34
The normal one. 3301 Super Slim in Anthracite, black-gray raw denim, the curved back yoke, leather patch, G-Star hardware. Tag 34x34, measured inseam 32.5 in. Even fading, no fraying, no holes. (Nothing to teach here. Good jeans, right size, priced to leave.) $55.
Aoi Fujino Asahi Geino Secret Telephone Card, 2019, Unused
One card standing in for twenty-two. Asahi Geino Secret is the gravure spin-off of Asahi Geino, a weekly men's magazine, and its promotional telecas are the late form of the phone card habit this blog has covered before: 50-unit NTT card, promotional issue, never fed into a phone. This one is Aoi Fujino, issued 2019, card code F01HJ7, clean front and back, no punch holes. Thirteen more Asahi Geino Secret cards listed with it, plus the BOMB 2011 pair, the Monthly Entame and Asahi Geino QUO cards, and one each from EX Taishu and Doyo. All unused, all in the store, all photographed. (Twenty-two idols on twenty-two cards. Some of them are the same idol twice. Read the titles.) $50.
Also in this week and not in this post: a 1998 Erosty Pop mouse pad, a Range Murata PSE trading figure, a Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 playing card deck, a Natural 2 Duo teleca, and a third copy of the French Bondage Fairies 2, opened. Next week, if nothing outprices them. The ACG is still on the bench.