Gender, Costume, Textile, Technique: Women, Clothing, Cultural Representation and Modern Japan

This book, a unique contribution to the field of kimono and Japan—related clothing studies, challenges uncritical readings of clothing from the lives of Japanese women and cultural representations of women wearing these clothes. Chapters ground understandings of clothing, including kimono, in the lived experience of different groups of women in modern Japan.
Also discussing cosplay outside Japan, the collection argues that items worn by women are produced and consumed in a gendered and hig...