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Ninja Skirt Transforms User Into a Coke Machine

It looks like a Coke machine, right? It's not. This is a picture of a woman wearing a special dress. Designer Aya Tsukioka's made this dress for women who fear being attacked in public places:

By unfolding the sheet and stepping to the side of the street, she showed how a woman walking alone could hide behind it to outfox a potential attacker.

Aya Tsukioka unveils her design in Tokyo. She hopes it will help ease women's fear of crime


At the link, you can see step-by-step photos of the dress transforming into a disguise.

Link via reddit | Photo: New York Times

Neat concept, but confusing purpose. I know there's a lot of vending machines to blend in with, but wouldn't it be better to just run than to stand around setting that up?
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Heh heh heh, I heard about this on "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" a few weeks back. It's a serious invention, MikeG, made for easily frightened women (the inventor invented it for herself first). The Japanese are just weird.
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I too heard this on Wait Wait, and simultaneously could and could not believe it. I liked the remark, "supposedly a would-be attacker would walk right by and not notice her... unless he was thirsty."
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Yeah, I could've sworn I've this on Neatorama before. Or maybe it was mental_floss...

Either way, I guess inventions like this will have to do 'till we can invent invisibility cloaks.
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If a woman can temporarily out-distance a mugger while wearing that skirt, and still have time to find a place to stand and set herself up as a faux soda machine, why even bother with this?
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"While British women might prefer to take self-defence classes, Ms Tsukioka said: "It is just easier for Japanese to hide. Making a scene would be too embarrassing."

Wow.
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@Katey: Yeah, running for your life is embarrassing! If I don't have a giant cola costume at hand, I just break into an interpretive tree dance and then start squawking out Morse code for "Help, Police" like a deranged parrot. Embarrassment crisis averted.
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ROFL violet. I could totally imagine someone doing that while the would-be mugger stands by looking confused ehehehehehehehe... cracking me up......
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