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1. Introduction: Modernity, Fashion and Japan Modernity and Modernity inClothing Global Fashion and National Cultures Japan 2. Japanese Clothes1800-2000 Clothing in the Edo Period Nakedness and Covering It DecencyFoundation Choices: Yoga and Nihonga Materials and Materialism'Westernisation' and Japanese Fashion Textile Industrialisation TheDemocratisation of Consumption World War II The Rise of Designers Today'sSubcultures 3. Japanese Menswear: Masculinity and Sartorial StatecraftUniforms and the State: The Emperor's New Clothes Suits: Modern and ClassicMasculinity The Suit in Europe and America The Growing Civilised Centre TheJapanese Suit The Rokumeikan Modern Boys Possible Masculinities post 2000 4.Japanese Womenswear: Femininity and Modernity Traditional Notions ofSartorial Womanhood Meiji Girl Students and School Uniforms Taisho Decadenceand the Moga Sportswear, Swimwear & Movement Cosmetics and SubstanceHairstyles: The First Experiments Kimono Reform and Traditional IdentityFeminine Formality and Time 1960s Counter Culture in Japan JapaneseFemininity Today 5. Conclusions: Theories of Japanese Fashion The Economicsof Aesthetics A Set of Reoccurring Questions Functional Explanations Fashionas the Search for Meaning and/or Identity Fashion and the Struggle for StatusThe Economics of Fashion Fashion as Communication Dynamic Explanations ofFashion Fashion as Diffusion Cycles of Fashion Fashion as Erotic Fashion andthe Zeitgeist Fashion as Aesthetics Acknowledgements Bibliography