Posts Tagged ‘Tokyo’
Straw Hats on Tokyo Streets
While walking near Harajuku Station in Tokyo recently, I noticed women dressed in traditional kimono with what seemed to be a straw fan in their hand – only to realize that the fan turns into a hat. Genius. As more and more women turned up in identical outfits, I realized they were part of a […]
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Tags: Costume, Hats, Japan, Tokyo, Tradition
From the streets of Tokyo, you can see Japanese have a great eye for mixing and matching improbable old and new items of clothing. Take, for example, the shop assistant above, whom I photographed at the vintage shop Haight & Ashbury. Oyo mixes an ornate 1950s hat, Charleston pearls and a modern marinière-style t-shirt. The […]
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Tags: "Japan Vintage", "Tokyo Vintage", Japan, Shimokitazawa, Tokyo
For all its simple style, the kimono has lost status in Japan as daily apparel. Japanese women talk about kimonos with a sense of ritual and preciousness. How can something almost sacred return to daily life? I met a young Tokyo mother at the aquarium in Shinagawa taking her two daughters and a friend. In […]
Filed under: Craft, Japan, Sewing, Textile | 5 Comments
Tags: children, Japan, kimono, Liberty, Tokyo
