Shimokitazawa Flea, Saturday Late-Morning

Eleven-twenty. Vinyl-and-cafe corner, the weekend flea is already loud.

The big rail at the second stall says COMME DES GARÇONS, ISSEY MIYAKE in marker. The coats are real, the trial-runs are real, the price says all-three-thousand-yen. Crowd reads it without skepticism.

A late-twenties browser stops at the Comme rail. Touches a 1990s tailored coat at the seam-finish before checking the label. Reads the inside-tape, then the outside-shape. Knows the year before the price.

The food-truck queue is a different reading. Coffee plus weekend, not casting.

I noted the seam-reader. Did not approach. Will return at fourteen for the second sweep.