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Kogyaru is a subculture of conspicuous consumption among girls and young women in urban Japan which emerged in the 1990's. Kogyaru are known for wearing platform boots, a miniskirt, copious amounts of makeup, hair coloring (usually blonde or brown), artificial suntans, and designer accessories. If in school uniform, the look typically includes skirts pinned very high and loose socks. Kogyaru are also known as kogal, or kogaru.

References: Episode 6 third Season of BBC's Japanorama documentary.
Japan Forum website http://www.mynippon.com/gainippon/kogal.htm
Steven Kippel not knowing anything about Japanese subculture mistook the kogyaru for a prostitute resulting in damage to his chin chin.
kogyaru by Art_izan February 18, 2009
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Used to describe Japanese prostitutes that dress like schoolgirls (as most of them are still in school).

Also known as kogal, or kogaru.
With the boom of anime, and the incrediblly high price of a japanese schoolgirl's lifestyle, you can find many kogyaru in Tokyo.
kogyaru by Steven Kippel August 23, 2004

Kogyahais 

A sweaty naked indian man who escaped from the mental facillities, kidnapped a woman and starts dancing and singing with her in the river valleys.
Look jimmy. There goes another kogyahais down the road

Example: my man is part of the indian kogyahai association.
Kogyahais by Logan147 December 23, 2019

kogyoshi 

He’s the annoying Japanese kid in ur class
I hate kogyoshi
kogyoshi by Simplyyymixmi October 5, 2020

Kogyaru socks

Kogyaru socks - aka Japanese loose socks

Really popular in japan during the 90s and early to mid 2000s
Which by 2020s is now considered retro .

Fesoi is a german based company that makes a imitation

Version of them ... also see hooters slouch socks which are different.... those socks women & sometimes men wore in 1980s while working out with jenny Craig & Richard simmons.
Kogyaru socks

Japan. Loose socks (ルーズソックス, rūzu sokkusu) are a style of baggy sock worn by Japanese high school girls, as part of kogal culture. This style of socks has also become popular among American teens & college students who are fans of Japanese anime & manga.

among Japanese high school girls since the mid-1990s, the so-called kogal or kogyaru, and still in vogue. Most common color is white although there are also black and navy. The socks are sewn very wide, that they seem to fall from the leg. They are worn below the knee. They look like leg warmers, with the difference that leg warmers do not cover the foot.
Kogyaru socks by Blu_leef July 20, 2025
A toe rag was originally a foot wrapping used, since mediaeval times up until the mid-nineteenth century, to protect the foot from chafing by boots or shoes. As these were, quite literally, rags they weren’t usually washed, and so with use they became very smelly until they were thrown away. Because of the similarity in smell, toe rag also became the name applied to dried, salted cod or other things with a strong, unpleasant, fishy smell. It didn’t take that long before the name was applied to someone who was an obnoxious, unpleasant OIC.
1 “Socks! Those aren’t socks you smelly git, they’re toe rags!”
2 “What have you been cooking? Smells like toe rag!”
3 “I can smell ‘er fanny from ‘ere, proper toe rag.”
4 That Heale Malcolm is a right toe rag.
Toe Rag by AKACroatalin November 29, 2016
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