1、A girl carrying kimonos. Thompson St, February 1912.

2、The young women are dressed in kimonos and the young men are in suits and ties.

3、How did you start making kimonos, which has now become your most representative work?

4、This intermezzo over, he found himself surrounded by several stunning, porcelain-faced Japanese women in kimonos.

5、That's perhaps why some people say that my kimonos blend naturally into the modernistic spaces of today's Japan.

6、 Chinese women's cheongsams and Japanese women's kimonos all embody a kind of implicit beauty peculiar to the East.

7、You'd always been making ordinary clothes until then, what made you suddenly turn your eyes to kimonos ?

8、Founded in 1893, the company originally farmed indigo plants and made indigo dyes that were used in kimonos.

9、The 1932 fire at Shirokiya's Nihombashi store is said to have been the catalyst for the decline in kimonos as everyday wear.

10、According to Japanese custom, little girls do not wear kimonos and teenagers do not wear dresses. So the second translation is correct.

11、Ellen's a Portland, Oregon native but is never in one place for long — she's currently exploring Japan, where she writes, teaches, and hoards vintage kimonos.