カジュアル

• 読み: カジュアル
• ローマ字: kajuaru
• 漢字の分解: From English 'casual' → relaxed, informal clothing style
• 発音: /ka.dʑɯ.a.ɾɯ/

意味

Casual, laid-back fashion style; everyday relaxed clothing.

カジュアル in Japanese fashion refers to a relaxed everyday style — jeans, T-shirts, sneakers, hoodies, and denim jackets. It is one of the core fashion categories in Japan and serves as the baseline style that other categories (きれいめ, ストリート系, モード系) are defined against. The term also appears in compounds like きれいめカジュアル (polished casual) and カジュアルダウン (dressing down a formal outfit with casual elements).

例文

1. 今日はカジュアルでいいよね、居酒屋だし。
2. カジュアルすぎない程度にまとめたい。
3. カジュアルな服が一番落ち着くわ。

使い方ガイド

場面: fashion, daily life, invitations, dress codes

トーン: neutral, everyday

正しい言い方

• カジュアルな格好で来てね。 (Come in casual clothes.)
• カジュアルダウンするためにスニーカー合わせた。 (I paired sneakers to dress it down.)

避ける言い方

• ドレスコードが「カジュアル」のときにジャージで行くのはNG (Showing up in a tracksuit when the dress code says 'casual' is not okay — Japanese カジュアル still has standards)

よくある間違い

• Interpreting Japanese カジュアル as anything goes — even 'casual' in Japan tends to mean put-together casual, not sloppy

起源と歴史

From English 'casual.' Adopted into Japanese fashion vocabulary as Western clothing became mainstream in the postwar era. Now one of the fundamental fashion style classifications.

文化的背景

時代: Postwar adoption, fundamental category

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal

地域メモ: Used across all of Japan. Note that Japanese 'casual' tends to be more polished than Western casual — even relaxed Japanese outfits often look intentional.