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[edit] "Gyaru" Etymology
In studying Japanese history, I've run into the term "MoGa" -- from "Modern Girl", which dates back to the 1920's Taisho-era adoption of flapper aesthetics by a prominent subculture of (primarily) urban women. Barbara Sato has a book commenting largely on this phenomenon: http://wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au/intersections/issue9/wilson_review.html
It has always been my impression that all subsequent "Gal" terminologies originated from this one, but the gap is a wide one.... Does anyone have further information about this? Speaker59 19:51, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
