“Traditional” dog costumes for New Year’s holiday

Written by: Rebecca Milner on November 12, 2008 at 12:05 am | In LIFESTYLE / FASHION |

Surely we’ve seen no shortage of doggy costumes to commemorate traditional western holidays like Christmas and Valentine’s Day. Now pet shop Dog Marine is going East Asia-trad with pet accessories to celebrate the New Year, Chinese astrology-style.

Above is one for this year, the year of the rat, and for next, the year of the ox. Dog Marine is calling these head-pieces inuzura, which means “dog wig.” We also like the “Daruma” (traditional Japanese doll) and “barcode” styles. Barcode is Japanese slang for comb-over!

In other dog news, thanks to the website from pet health insurance provider Anicom, we learned that “Choco” remains the number one dog name in Japan (fourth year running) and is followed by “Momo” (peach) and “Marron” (chestnut). Yes, they are all food names…

Tags: Back to Japan, pets
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