Transcript Japanese Fashion

Japanese Fashion
Ethical Fashion
• The latest fashion show
in Tokyo shows an ethical
type of fashion that looks
environmentally friendly.
Or at least it is
environmentally inspired
since the whole global
warming issue is huge
these days.
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Week 08
Street Fashion
• The term 'Street Fashion'
is used to describe
fashion where the wearer
personally customizes the
outfits by adopting a
mixture of current and
traditional trends. Such
clothes are generally
home-made with the use
of material bought from
the stores.
-Wikipedia
Ancient Japanese Fashion
Ancient Japanese Court Dance and
Music Fashion
Historical Evolution of Japanese
Fashion
Kimono
• Kimonos are T-shaped, straight-lined robes that fall to
the ankle, with collars and wide, full-length sleeves.
Kimonos are wrapped around the body, always with
the left side over the right (except when dressing the
dead for burial) and secured by a wide belt called an
obi, which is usually tied at the back. Kimonos are
generally worn with traditional footwear (especially
zōri or geta) and split-toe socks (tabi).[3]
• Today, kimonos are most often worn by women, and
on special occasions. Traditionally, unmarried women
wore a style of kimono called furisode,[3] which have
floor-length sleeves, on special occasions. A few
older women and even fewer men still wear kimonos
on a daily basis. Men wear kimonos most often at
weddings, tea ceremonies, and other very special or
very formal occasions. Professional sumo wrestlers
are often seen in kimonos because they are required
to wear traditional Japanese dress whenever
appearing in public. They commonly wear the kind of
casual Japanese attire that is referred to as yukata,
which is of plain unlined cotton.
-Wikipedia
Japanese Fashion Through Years
1899
1950
1970
1990
1960
2000
• Upper-class and noble women were the first to embrace
Western dress from head to toe, wearing elaborate
gowns at government balls.
• Men soon abandoned kimonos for trousers and jackets.
• Public schools required uniforms—shorts for boys and
skirts for girls—like those worn by students attending
mission schools.
• As women ventured out more into society, trendsetters
chose Western clothes, which not only offered greater
freedom of mobility but were also vastly easier to put on
than kimonos.
• By the late 1920s a new woman emerged, known as
moga, the Eastern counterpart of the Western flapper.
With her bobbed hairdo flying in the face of the age-old
belief that a woman’s long, black tresses were her most
prized possession, she exuded an up-to-date, stylish
confidence.
Ganguro
• In ganguro fashion, a deep tan
is combined with hair dyed in
shades of orange to blonde, or
a silver gray known as "high
bleached". Black ink is used as
eyeliner and white concealer is
used as lipstick and eye
shadow. False eyelashes,
plastic facial gems, and pearl
powder are often added to this.
Platform shoes and brightlycolored outfits complete the
ganguro look. Also typical of
ganguro fashion are tie-dyed
sarongs, miniskirts, and lots of
bracelets, rings, and
necklaces.
-Wikipedia
• http://www.morbidoutlook.com/fashion/hist
orical/2004_07_edo.html