“MY WORK’S NOT ONLY ABOUT MY OBSESSION WITH JAPANESE WOMEN, IT’S ABOUT MEDICAL FETISHISM AND MY FASCINATION WITH ACCIDENTS” – ROMAIN SLOCOMBE, 1997 Beautiful Japanese girls are photographed in casts and bandages, victims of unknown traumas in the neon streets and hospital rooms. These are the

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Ca 1905 Meiji-era Portrait of a Japanese girl. ♥ Pure B & W version, with line frame : www.flickr.com/photos/okinawa-soba/15362159235/ ♥ See a beautiful "Creative Commons" use of this image HERE : www.flickr.com/photos/artmad/3292440955/ At this time, Geisha were the usual subjects for all studio photography work, including "out of character" costume such as Laborers, Housewives, Bathing Beauties, and Models of Western fashions. The Japanese woman's longing for Western Fashion began long ago. Even Emperor Hirohito got tired his own cumbersome native fashions, and decided to go with Western styles for himself after returning from his first trip to Europe as a young man in 1921. In the end, Blue Jeans and skirts won out, and Kimonos were gradually relegated to the restaurant, hotel, bar, service and entertainment industries -- with the universal exception of Celebrations and certain Holidays. Even the Ainu of the north, after wowing the tourist crowds with their exotic displays of the dance and music of Japan's ORIGINAL inhabitants, will slip off after the shows to later appear in Blue Jeans and T-shirts on their way home. However, as a "National Costume", the Kimono remains a well-loved fashion symbol of Japan around the world. Here's what happens if you spin the picture around while the scanner is still scanning : ♥ www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/2450502934/ and ♥ www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/2450504316/

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