Female travellers to Japan from Europe or America were comparatively rare, so this is why at first, it was male fashions which had the most impact on Japanese clothing. Women did not do business and did not leave the home so often, and the Western businessmen did not often bring their wives to Japan. Japanese businessmen wanted their Western counterparts to feel that they were just like them, so they tried to dress the same (although in some cases they ended up retaining part of their traditional clothes and adding Western influences, so a kimono might be accessorised with a bowler hat and shiny patent leather shoes). It was the height of chic to abandon your traditional Japanese clothes and wear what they felt was the much more sophisticated trousers, waistcoats and bowler hats of early English and American visitors to the country.
Image via Pinterest.Īt the turn of the century, Japanese men were crazy for Western clothes.
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