Word: kimonoed
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Though silk raising is one of the most important industries of Japan, most Japanese wear cotton. The kimonos of the lower classes are cotton, so are their underclothes, socks. In years gone by, when a Japanese wore holes in his socks or damaged his kimono irretrievably, he simply threw it away. Not so now, said a last week's despatch from the U. S. Department of Commerce. In 1923 Japan sent to the U. S. 4,432,000 pounds of discarded kimonos, underclothes, trousers, and so forth, to be reclaimed, and the Japanese ragbag has grown to such colossal...
Hollis--"Wooden Kimono"--8.20 o'clock...
...these obstacles, in spite of the fact that until the last reel, she wears no Parisian gowns but appears only on horseback, in the jungle swimming pool, in a hula custume, or (when her dog scampers into the Englishman's room and she gives chase) in a kimono. Divorce is forthcoming when the wife is tricked into believing her husband penniless. All this receives, and certainly needs, enormous "IT", for the scenario is sick unto death...
...Among them: The Donovan Affair, The Ghost Train, Set a Thief, The Spider, Number Seven, Wooden Kimono, Mystery Ship, The House of Shadows...
...advantage of telephone conversation is the fact, that the ONE at the other end cannot see you. Half the time, much to the disgust of your family, you go to the telephone in kimono and cold cream. Disillusion would certainly be the fate of the ONE at the other end if he could see his darling with shining face, her hair done up in inartistic Western Electrics...