Material for fashionable clothing became scarce in Imperial Japan during the war and Western fashion became “unpatriotic” when the war with the West began. Thereafter, although many civilian men wore military style uniforms, the social pressure to wear traditional Japanese clothing for women was extreme.
I see the women are wearing traditional clothes and wonder how influenced the Japanese culture was by the west at that time. Holly
Material for fashionable clothing became scarce in Imperial Japan during the war and Western fashion became “unpatriotic” when the war with the West began. Thereafter, although many civilian men wore military style uniforms, the social pressure to wear traditional Japanese clothing for women was extreme.