It includes illustrations of the costumes of one hundred categories of women, from empresses and imperial princesses down to prostitutes. It attempts to exhaustively document the costumes and...

2023年11月4日 · Color and pattern played a significant role in Edo period fashion. Bright colors were generally associated with youth and were commonly worn by young women and girls. Men and older women, on the other hand, wore more subdued colors. …

Like the attire of the men of the samurai class, women's attire was also carefully prescribed to reflect the social status and age of the wearer as well as the season and occasion in which it was worn.

2022年2月15日 · While her primary focus is on a key element of Edo period fashion, the kimono robe, Nadeshico included additional drawings of topknot hair design, how to tie an obi belt, avant garde umbrellas, wooden geta sandals, and other fashion popular during the period.

2023年11月10日 · The 'adult' mode of having one's sleeves sewn to the body of one's kimono became dominant in men's clothing before the end of the Edo period, with free-swinging sleeves becoming a ladies-only style in modern Japan.

2025年1月27日 · The Edo women tie beautiful wrappers made from a variety of fabrics including velvet, lace and george. They also wear the Ewu-ivie, a beaded cape or blouse. Edo women adorn their necks with coral beads known as Ivie-uru and wear the Ivie-obo on their hands and beaded earrings.

2025年2月2日 · Traditional costumes have a general basic pattern quite recognizable from local variations in style or detail. Today they are still in vogue, and natural ruler in particular being custodians of indigenous culture and custom, don the traditional attire on formal occasions.

The welcoming signboard girl at the shop. Walking with a delicate sway of her hanging floral hairpin, her charming appearance is truly the ideal of women's dream.

The preferred shape for women is cylindrical, not hourglass. If their waists are too narrow, they pad them out with cloth wrappings. The shoulders should be narrow and sloping, so that sometimes a little padding is used near the neck by those whose shoulders are incurably square.

At that time, aristocratic women wore what are now known as twelve-layer robes (jūnihitoe), whose outer layers, such as the uchiki, had large, wide sleeves that were entirely open at the outer...