short skirts,
high heels, and
big umbrellas.
Japan has a version of cheerleaders for car races.
They stand around in front of expensive cars wearing
revealing bathing suits and posing for pictures with
dirty old japanese men.
Many of these pictures make it to the web- go to
Yahoo Japan and look up
race queens and you'll see.
Perfect material for a
weird foreign soap opera: young, disappointed race queens, old,
wise race queens, thinking "
At least I'm not a prostitute!", and
arrogant racecar drivers, driving around and around
Japan, stopping only to race around little tracks.
Plays into
japan's obsession with uniforms.