kogyaru

Noun

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

kogyaru

n.

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

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

kogaru

kogaru or also kogyaru.

japanese girls with tanned skin and dyed hair, usually wearing colorful stuff and extensive makeup.

the term originates from the japanese mispronunciation of "callgirl".

an acronym for this is "ganguro" which means like "blackface" in japanese.

look at that kogaru over there...
(straightforward as one would expect)

kogaru by hotzenplotz May 10, 2004

kogaru

Ahh...the dyed yellow hair, the big socks, the bleeding-edge mobile phone. We all love Kogals, those young Japanese schoolies who hang around in gangs everywhere from Osaka to Oxford. It makes life just that little bit easier to take, watching them with their Badtz Maru handbags and Domo-kun Alice bands.

'Did you see the legs on that Kogaru? Like a bloody elephants...'

kogaru by Miles Pieri January 20, 2004