- When:
- March 07, 2019
- Time:
- 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
- Category:
- MulvaneEvents
- Location:
- Rita Blitt Gallery
- Details:
- Join the Mulvane in welcoming Karen J. Mack for a public lecture on the “Taishō-Roman” kimono, which are still the most easily recognizable kimono and beloved even today both within and outside of Japan. Ordinary women, until then recently confined to the home by convention, became free to go out and about, strolling in Ginza (Japan’s Fifth Avenue) for shopping and lunching with friends. This short era of kimono freedom from convention was the peak of what the Japanese term (loosely translated) “fancy clothes,” which were styles between formal and informal attire. Dr. Mack will explore the decade of “Taishō-Roman” kimono which was actually from the mid-1920s to the mid-1930s, followed by the Moga (Modern Girl) style of Western clothes influenced by the Western fashions of the 1920s and 1930s.