Icecream parlour

We eventually retire to an icecream parlour on the corner of the plaza.

One contract specified that the teacher not get married, not ride in a carriage with any man not her relative, not leave town without permission, not smoke or drink, not dye her hair, not dress in bright colours, never wear fewer than two petticoats, not wear make up, wear her dresses no more than two inches above the ankle and not loiter downtown in icecream parlours.

Most of this icecream was sold in the fancy icecream parlours which arrived on the streets of Tōkyō and Ōsaka in the early 80s at the beginning of the ‘icecream boom’ caused by the sudden increase in adult consumers: […]