KIMONOS DISCARDED IN JAPAN
(Rec. 7 p.m.) NEW YORK, Dec. 16. Tokyo radio stated that 50,000 cherry trees on the Imperial stock farm in the China prefecture will be cut down and converted to charcoal because of a shortage. Japanese women have discarded flowing kimonos for the “mompei,” a baggy type of slacks, the radio said. Kimonos impeded quick movement, and therefore were unpractical during air raids. The broadcast concluded: “Most Japanese cannot now understand why the kimono was ever admired.”
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Southland Times, Issue 25549, 18 December 1944, Page 5
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