At 02:29 PM 8/29/2005, you wrote:
Nope. I meant Kimonos...picked apart and re sewn. There's an example of this
very thing in the Kyoto book....page 291 in the big 1 volume book.
For those who don't have the Fashion book. From the text on page 290:
"Western European women wore kimonos as indoor wear, as dressing gowns, and
Japanese kimonos were also re-tailored into Western European clothes.
Especially popular was the white embroidered Japanese cloth, rinzu, used in
the kimonos of samurai-class Japanese women at the end of the Tokugawa
(Edo) period. This example is a dress, re-tailored in London from a
Japanese kimono. The fabric still bears the marks showing that it was once
a kimono."
The dress is a bustle dress of the 1870s, but only the bodice and overskirt
survive. The fabric is very beautiful.
Kimiko
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