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A sukajan (スカジャン), also known as souvenir jacket or tour jacket, is a type of satin blouse jacket often embroidered with orientalist motifs that originated in post-World War II occupied Japan. Modeled after varsity jackets, they were originally a souvenir created by Japanese craftspeople for American servicemen stationed in
In cooler weather, a montsuki haori (long jacket) with a white haori-himo (haori-fastener) completes the outfit. Traditionally made of silk, sendaihira hakama are sometimes made with blends. [4] Sendaihira is woven with a dense warp. Traditionally, the weft is woven wet, and beaten firmly into place to make it denser.
A jinbei (甚平) (alternately jinbē (甚兵衛) or hippari (ひっぱり)) is a traditional set of Japanese clothing worn by men, women and children during summer as loungewear. [1] Consisting of a side-tying, tube-sleeved kimono -style top and a pair of trousers, jinbei were originally menswear only, although in recent years women's jinbei ...
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An important accessory worn with the jūnihitoe was an elaborate fan, known as a hiōgi, made out of slats of cypress wood, commonly painted and tied together with long silk cords. This was used by women not only to cool down, but also as an important communication device; since women at the Heian period court were not allowed to speak face-to ...
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Fewer fans appeared to attend the postponed Sugar Bowl between Notre Dame and Georgia on Thursday in light of the terror attack in New Orleans.
No Iowa Hawkeyes women's basketball player will wear Caitlin Clark's No. 22 again. The number will be retired in a ceremony Feb. 2 at Carver-Hawkeye Arena, the Iowa athletic department announced ...