Country Girl in Out-Door or Travelling Costume
Photograph
Country Girl in Out-Door or Travelling Costume
From the album Photographic Views and Costumes of Japan
ca. 1868
Albumen silver print with applied color
28.8 x 21.6 cm.
Purchase
1979.0059.0006
Inscriptions (applied label, printed, opposite page):
COUNTRY GIRL IN OUT-DOOR OR TRAVELLING COSTUME.
ANY covering for the head is seldom worn by Japanese women, except when travelling. There is nothing seen approaching the hat or bonnet of Western fashion. Occasionally a white kerchief of cotton stuff, stamped with colored figures, is thrown over the head; but more as a protection to the hair from dust or disarrangement than as a head-dress.
The umbrella, which deserves special attention, is always carried. It is manufactured entirely of bamboo and paper; and for ingenuity and neatness of construction cannot be excelled. The umbrella is rendered waterproof by oiling the paper by which it is covered. Various designs are drawn thereon; the most common of which is a simple circle of black at the centre and edge with a white space between, as shewn in the picture.
When travelling, the outer garments are gathered up, and tucked into the waist-belt, leaving the lower limbs unrestrained and exposed almost as high as the knee.
COUNTRY GIRL IN OUT-DOOR OR TRAVELLING COSTUME.
ANY covering for the head is seldom worn by Japanese women, except when travelling. There is nothing seen approaching the hat or bonnet of Western fashion. Occasionally a white kerchief of cotton stuff, stamped with colored figures, is thrown over the head; but more as a protection to the hair from dust or disarrangement than as a head-dress.
The umbrella, which deserves special attention, is always carried. It is manufactured entirely of bamboo and paper; and for ingenuity and neatness of construction cannot be excelled. The umbrella is rendered waterproof by oiling the paper by which it is covered. Various designs are drawn thereon; the most common of which is a simple circle of black at the centre and edge with a white space between, as shewn in the picture.
When travelling, the outer garments are gathered up, and tucked into the waist-belt, leaving the lower limbs unrestrained and exposed almost as high as the knee.
