The clothes of Western style was familiarized by a wife of a
diplomat who had been abroad in Taishou period. While, seeing
the cloth of Japanese style, we find that the clothes to wear
on visiting someone patterned with its skirt was in fashion. It
is said that “Nagoyaobi” was contrived about in 1200.
In Shouwa, when World War ‖ broke out, to say nothing of the
clothes of Japanese style, all their daily life was infect with
war. And we took the blank years of the kimono. The rule of the
clothes which they must wear a natinal clothes and a normal clothes
was established, which was the base to take the Western style
period.
Though the kosode which ranked with the center of a clothes from
Muromachi period became down once under the war for 20 years and
the confusion of after the war, still keep living now. But we
can't pass off the point that a present-kimono changed, including
a variety of elements in the inner side. In other words, kimonos
it is not teh kimono for our lif, it came to have the character
ramified by the object to wear. For example, there are “Haregi”which
means the kimono that are worn in a public place, , and so on.
The kimono is the existence that we sometimes want to touch
and wear in our life of the center of Western style, and the object
of a Japanese sense of beauty.