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Japanese boys clothes -- well-to-do family 1911
Japanese Families: Modern Tokyo Family (1910s)
Figure 1.-- Here we have a very modern-looking Japanese family, although we are left wondering where mother is. The children look to be about 5-10 years old. The boy wears a a sailor outfit with knee socks. The girl weara a dress with sailor touches and white long stockings. Dad wears a natty boater, sporys jacket and white oants. This could not have been in sharper contrast with traditional Japan. We wonder if this may be why mother is not in the portarit, she mnay still be dressed traditiionally. The portrait is not dated. It could be the early-1920s, but the 1910s seems more likely.
Here we have a very modern-looking Japanese family, although we are left wondering where mother is. The children look to be about 5-10 years old. The boy wears a a sailor outfit with knee socks. The girl weara a dress with sailor touches and white long stockings. Dad wears a natty boater, sporys jacket and white oants. This could not have been in sharper contrast with traditional Japan. We wonder if this may be why mother is not in the portarit, she mnay still be dressed traditiionally. The portrait is not dated. It could be the early-1920s, but the 1910s seems more likely. If this was a Western portrait, there would be no doubt in out mind that it was a 1910s potrtrait. The down-turned hats the children are wearing are a give-away. But of course fashion trends in even in Tokyo may not have beeb as current as in New York. It does show how fashionablr Japanese urban families were adopting Western fashions. The men and boys were ther girst afopters. Here we see avery fashionable lttle girls. Sailor fashions seem very popular. The portrait was done in a paper fram. The style and color of the paper frome is consistent with the 1910s-20s of those frames in the West. The photographer was T. Shibata at the Moysukosh studio in Tokyo.
