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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The Limon is an icen garment trually the ultimate signifier of Japan it is merel sithin the country as the combodiment of national codhare and sensibility and is internationally reganiel with notic fascination. This symbolic status and the fact that its basic slupe las rented consistent over the centuries means that the kimono is often viewed as a simple timeless gamoent It is tradidional while moderuity and le extension “fashion” is a European phenomenon that came to Japan oub when the country embraced westem clothing in the second half of the nineteenth century. This standard Eurocentric assumption was articulated is Gilles Lipovetsky in The Exsper of Fiedios Dressing Modern Democrar in which he stated that the Japanese kinono remained unchanged for centuries Lipovetsky’s book was first published in 1987 yet despite subsequent scholarships particularly on Asian dress this limiting opinion pervails The aim of this book and the exhibition it accompanies is to counter this attitende and to present the kimono as a dinamic and fashionable item of dress. It reveals the social cultural and sartorial significance of the kimono in historical and contemporary contests both in Japan and in the rest of the world where its impact on dress styles has been felt since the cary seventeenth century. Kingono sumply means the thing to wear. The garnient was originally known as a besede meaning “small sleeves a term that referred not to the overall size of the sleeve but to that of the sleeve opening which was just wide enough for the wrist and arm to pass through. During the Heian period 295 85 dee term kosode was used to siguify garments with tubular sleeves and narrow annholes the contrast being taade with de or garments wwith large sleeses At this time plant silk bosode were worn by the imperial pristocrary as undergarments for wide derved robes such as sokser. (OS)