Coat
The kimono and the bamboo pattern are principal signifiers of Japan in the West. The adaptation of a theater coat from the silhouette of the kimono accommodates styles and needs of the Western market but also retains close identification with Japanese sources. By 1900, exoticism was customarily accompanied by reductivism, accepting and exacerbating the potential of Asian dress for modernism. This theater coat was published in the January-March 1900 issue of the fashion magazine, The Delineator.
Artwork Details
- Title: Coat
- Designer: Iida & Co./Takashimaya (Japanese, founded 1831)
- Date: ca. 1900
- Culture: Japanese
- Medium: silk
- Credit Line: Gift of Joseph L. Brotherton, 1985
- Object Number: 1985.362.1
- Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute
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