Author: MONTEBELLO, PHILIPPE DE - KOICHI TSUKAMOTO, YVONNE DESLANDRES (CONTRIBUTORS),
Title: Clothing that Captured the Imagination of Japan ROMAN ISHO TEN. the impact of romantic clothing EVOLUTION OF FASHION 1835-1895. April 5-June 1, 1980. pFirst edition].
Description: Kyoto, Kyoto Costume Institute, 1980. Large square 8°. Original blank limp glossy wrappers, coloured illustrated dustjacket in japanese style. [44] unnumbered pp. of english and japanese text, introduction, preface, descriptive catalogue to objects exhibited, captioned monochrome images in text illustrating western fashion designs, detailed time-tablecolophon. Album of [72] unnumbered pp. illustrating in colour and monochrome nineteenth century western ladies' fashions, all captioned in english and japanese. Images illustrate female clothing for all occasions, including sportswear, corsets, shoesnightwear, etc. English-japanese language catalogue of a travelling expedition about a wide range of western nineteenth century ladies' fashions and its impact on Japan and the Japanese. A very interesting exhibition catalogue. Good to very good copy. (copy a bit dog-eared and dull).

Keywords: ladies women females fashion design sportswear underwear nightwear exhibition culture heritage history japan asia fareast