Word: kimono
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...different in Tokyo, that the short train trip from their home creates an unsurmountable gap for the old people between their customs and the modern ways of their children. The old man looks very uncomfortable and slightly ridiculous in his Western-style travelling suit, and immediately changes into his kimono upon entering his son's house. His wife never exchanges her kimono for more occidental garb, but their children have thoroughly adapted to European clothing...
...heavily embroidered, fringed variety once reserved for' covering grand pianos). Smart young matrons favor practical, less voluminous versions, often reversible and generally hooded. Pacesetters turn out in everything from Revillon's full-length black fox trimmed with chicken feathers and Adolfo's butterfly-wing silk kimono to the all-mink tent that Actress Elsa Martinelli wore over a sequined bathing suit at a Paris play opening. French, Italian and American designers practically all featured winter-weight capes last fall: those sent down the runways for spring are cut in breezy chiffon, ordinary denim and even terry cloth...
Miniskirt and Kimono...
...happy with a six-month salary bonus every year and a new-car loan every two years. Corporate entertainment allowances total $2 billion a year in Japan, and Nakatani spends a good chunk of his $1,600 share taking foreign customers to geisha parties. But he is not a kimono chaser. That tradition is beginning to fade, albeit slowly, as Japan's women become more assertive...
...Japanese still show a marked in terest in their heritage. Housewives flock to schools to learn origami (paper folding), flower arrangement and the ancient tea ceremony just as unmarried girls fill charm and beauty schools. More flags are out on holidays, and the man's formal kimono is making a modest comeback. Novelist Yukio Mishima (Forbidden Colors) has formed his own private army of 100 men to help restore discipline, patriotism and pride in young Japanese. But many artists are exceptions to the growing preoccupation with Japanese identity. They consider their work to be their passports. Says Novelist (The Ruined...