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From my friends over at Khaki Creative (based in Beijing): An interesting detail: “All MOKOMOKO apparel sizes are Asian standard, which is slightly smaller than European standard. Please reconfirm your order to account for this... ...full story at Virtual China

from Virtual China on Wed, Sep 10 2008

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