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Photograph of a man and woman wearing traditional clothing, taken in Osaka, Japan. There are typically two types of clothing worn in Japan: traditional clothing known as Japanese clothing (和服, wafuku), including the national dress of Japan, the kimono, and Western clothing (洋服, yōfuku) which encompasses all else not recognised as either national dress or the dress of another country.
This is a list of gravure idols (グラビアアイドル, gurabia aidoru), who are glamour models in Japan that are generally more provocative than regular idols, though not to the point of posing nude.
Burusera (ブルセラ) is a sexual fetishism, specifically a sexualized attraction to the underwear or school uniforms of girls or young women. It is a word of Japanese origin, coined by combining burumā (ブルマー), meaning bloomers, as in the bottoms of gym suits, and sērā-fuku (セーラー服), meaning sailor suit, the traditional ...
Ganguro (ガングロ) is an alternative fashion trend among young Japanese women which peaked in popularity around the year 2000 and evolved from gyaru.. The Shibuya and Ikebukuro districts of Tokyo were the centres of ganguro fashion; it was started by rebellious youth who contradicted the traditional Japanese concept of beauty; pale skin, dark hair and neutral makeup tones.
Boots are a style of footwear that came to Japan from the West during the Meiji period (1868–1912); worn by women while wearing a hakama, optional footwear worn by young women, students and teachers at high-school and university graduation ceremonies, and by young women out celebrating their Coming of Age at shrines, often with a hakama with ...
Illustration of woman wearing dujin (top) and kakan (skirt).. The ryusou shows a combination of Chinese and Japanese influences as well as local, native originality. [7] Robes which crossed in the front was worn by both the working and upper classes; however, they differed in length (from knee to ankle length). [7]
Geographically, it has been associated with Japanese women living in the Northeastern Japanese farming countryside, such as Yonezawa, although this specificity has been questioned by historians. [7] It is actually thought that women have been wearing variations of monpe across many areas of Japan, particularly in the Tohoku region , for centuries.
In the pools and beaches of Japan, fundoshi-wearing swimmers occasionally can be seen, as in the case with ama divers in the past. In late 2008, the Japanese firm Wacoal began marketing fundoshi for women and have had greater than expected sales. The loincloths for women come in seven different colors and two designs—plain and chequered. [7]