Japanese skirt that lets you transform into a coke vending machine so that you don't get raped

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by DAVID GARDNER

You've heard of hiding in plain sight.

Well, a fashion designer has come up with a more colourful way for worried women to blend into a busy street to elude a pursuer.

We've had mini-skirts, skorts, pencils and midis. Now there's the vending machine skirt.



Aya Tsukioka's skirt aims to make the wearer look like a Coca Cola vending machine...

Ms Tsukioka, 29, unveiled her design in Tokyo by claiming she hopes it will help ease women's fear of crime.

She lifted a flap on the skirt to expose a large sheet of cloth printed with the familiar bright red Coca Cola logo.

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

Her deluxe model even boasts four sides for a more complete cover.

The experimental clothes designer has already sold 20 of the £400 hand-sewn vending machine skirts and it hoping to market the design worldwide.

She says the idea was inspired by a trick used by Japanese ninja assassins, who cloaked themselves in black blankets so they couldn't be seen at night.



Tsukioka lifts a flap on the skirt to expose a large sheet of cloth printed with the familiar bright red Coca Cola logo

If the fizzy drink machine seems a little elaborate, not to mention impractical, she has also come up with the 'manhole bag' which is supposed to look like a sewer cover when you put it down so unwitting thieves walk right by without noticing it.

For children, she has a backpack that transforms into a fire hydrant.

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."

She admits that making the switch from skirt to vending machine might prove a little tricky "especially when your hands are shaking".

But she told the New York Times: "These ideas might strike foreigners as far-fetched, but in Japan, they can become reality."



Tsukioka says the idea was inspired by a trick used by Japanese ninja assassins, who cloaked themselves in black blankets so they couldn't be seen at night

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-489110/The-Japanese-ninja-skirt-turns-Coca-Cola-machine-ward-attackers.html

And if the killer bumps into you he has a secluded spot for the rape to happen

I saw this when I was like 10. LOL

Lol. That is ridiculous but funny. Just wow.

This is no good lol.

i think this would work better for the rapists themselves instead of the victim. it would at least make for a funny scene in a movie where the person looks down and sees that the vending machine wears nikes.

What if you find coke machines sexy?

thats what the slot is for.

I want one!!! I WANT ONEE!!! DO WANT DO WANT I don't wanna get raped. They look very useful/convincing.

I really wanna make a comment, but it isn't polite in front of women on the forum lol.

A woman vending machine...

XD make your comment, Link. I'm curious.

LOL I dont think you want to, Senrae. I think I've figured it out.

nothing better after raping someone than an ice cold coke

i want

Ooooh, mailbox mini skirts, so sexxxy.

hello holloween prank

It's better than this.
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2007/04/rapestoppers_ra/

ThatNaggerGuy wrote:

It's better than this.
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2007/04/rapestoppers_ra/

Ouch. Definetly not what a guy wants to think about.

ThatNaggerGuy wrote:

It's better than this.
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2007/04/rapestoppers_ra/

I want one.

It just hurts to think about. Sympathy pains ftl

That just ruined 5 minutes of my life.