Love in Tokyo
Most of Rahel’s hair sat on top of her head like a fountain. It was held together by a Love-in-Tokyo — two beads on a rubber band, nothing to do with Love or Tokyo. In Kerala, Love-in-Tokyo had withstood the test of time, and even today if you were to ask for one at any respectable A-1 Ladies’ Store, that’s what you’d get. Two beads on a rubber band. [The God of Small Things]
Asha Parekh set fashion trends after the ‘66 hit Love in Tokyo, like this Cadillac-inspired sari:
Watch Parekh and Joy Mukherjee goofing around retro Tokyo, back when Japanese cars cost three grand and Godzilla was a guy in a rubber suit:
Jaa-paan… love in Toh-kee-ooo!
on Saturday, November 4th, 2006, 1:16 pm in Fashion, Film › 
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When I was a little girl in Madras, the most exciting thing for me was to be taken to a store called “Millions and Millions” to choose colourful “loveintokyos” for my hair! I called them “loveintokyos” for ages….have no clue what they’re really called.
I think they’re called bobbles in the U.S., but I’m not really sure.