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The big influence made by the West has undeniable and bold proof to the East. The once Hakama wearing Japanese men have diverged their fashion sensibility into a more western looking approach. The once bangnyeongkit shimui-shimui wearing Korean Men are on the search for fashionable western-inspired wears with the use of the internet or the so called "online shopping, making Koreans as the biggest number of online shoppers.

The widespread of western clothing is comparable to a disease which needs appropriate cure, a cure which suggest indulgent. Should you visit Asian cities like Singapore, Hongkong, Taipei, and even Manila and you will be surprised how Asia has absorbed the influence of the Western custom.

Tokyo in particular is akin to any European countries where you can see every man in formal suits every day. Advantages are more likely to be seen than of its disadvantages, at first, western clothing can be used in different occasions. Can you imagine yourself wearing Kimono while typing on your computer's keyboard for your report?

Ease and Comfort, these are the main reasons why should you take suits more over your kimonos especially when it's an office scenario.

Taking western clothing does not mean that you are not patriotic and does not love your country, sometimes acclimatization should be done not because you do not like what your culture has given you but its bare simple that you want to make everything easy as possible.

In Asia department stores are fully flooded with nothing but western clothing, not only that even wholesale clothing shops regardless whether it is in the conventional form or online selling; it is a rare thing to find stores selling traditional clothing, but it does not mean anything neither it shows how Asia's mentality is very western looking, it only mean that Asia is very open with western idealism.

Shauna Cortez a graduate BS Entrepreneur and graduate of Sales and Management in Manchester, England. also a member of English Society of Entrepreneur (ESE), and served for 2 years and now manages a Wholesale Clothingfranchise at Liverpool England and San Diego California USA.