Japan bra maker offers support for husband
hunters
TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Triumph International,
maker of the solar, postal and chopstick bras, is offering a new
kind of support for Japanese women on the prowl for a
husband.
Japan's marriage rate is falling and
the average age at which women get married is over 28 years,
relatively late for a country in which single females were once
considered over the hill at 25.
Triumph's latest novelty
bra features an electronic nuptial timepiece, putting women seeking
spouses literally on the clock.
If an engagement ring is inserted
into the mechanism, the countdown stops and the bra plays Felix
Mendelssohn's "The Wedding March."
The bra also includes holders for the
traditional seal some people use to sign off contracts and a pen
for any possible nuptial agreement.
Triumph spokeswoman
Keiko Masuda said the product, which is not for sale, would suit
modern Japanese women who are no longer content to sit and wait for
a potential husband to approach them.
"Japanese women are becoming more
aggressive than men, working actively to make marriage happen,
whereas in the past it was men who led women toward marriage," she
said.
"The roles have switched
completely."
Government statistics show nearly 57
percent of women under the age of 34 are unmarried, while some
3,800 firms in Japan offer match-making services.
(Reporting by Chika Osaka; Writing by
Dan Sloan, editing by Miral Fahmy)
So now at what age then is considered over the hill for women?
