"'Style' Kimono Reader" - 1953 Kimono Magazine Photos

If you remember the 1953 kimono magazine I mentioned awhile back, Sutairu Kimono Tokuhon or "Style" Kimono Reader, I've taken some snapshots of the opening color pages and posted them up on Flickr. It's an interesting peek back into a different time, and what's changed and what hasn't in the kimono world.

These pages posted now all seem to be handcolored from black and white photos, and some physically pasted onto their backgrounds.

I hope to post more down the road, and translations of the captions and a couple of the articles. Ask if you have any questions, and hope you enjoy!

Golden Week Shutdown

If you need to order something from an online Japanese shop, you probably should do it within the next 24 hours if you want it soon, as next week is Golden Week, when many businesses shut down for the entire week.

Golden Week is a collection of unrelated holidays: Showa Day on April 29th (reflection upon the Showa era), Constitution Memorial Day on May 3rd,  Greenery Day on May 4th (celebrating nature), and Boys' Day on May 5th. It's also one of the longest vacation periods in the calendar year, when a lot of people travel and take vacations.