Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-02-02
THE CEISHA GIRLS oARB.
How the Pretty and Picturesque Cos
tunes Are Donned and
Arranged.

Having performed her additions. the
japanese girl takes long strip OF cotton
or silk. according to her taste and con-
dition. the strip being about IL inches
wide and three yards long.
Holding the upper corner at one END
of the cloth, she winds the strip tightly
round her body, fastening it by tucking
the end corner in the belt so made.
This might correctly be called the jap
anese corset, says Smiths Weekly.
When properly put on it makes an al
most rigid bandage, and 1t Is this which
gives that peculiar little shuttle and
swing to the Yum-Yum's walk, the legs
being really only movable from tho
knee down.
Most writer's have ascribed the wadd!e
to the wearing of high wooden clogs,
but this is a mistake. The men wear
clogs, but they walk as freely as an In
dian.
The kilt. so to speak, having been adj
justed, the japanese girl then slips on q
little loose. sleeveless jacket-again
either of cotton or silk-which comes
down to the loin cloth, and over that
blouse of short kimoro; then another
q little longer, two or three more OF
these, the kimono, and then the obi or
bow.
All these under-garments and the ki-
mono itself are crossed in front and are
open at the neck. Each is decorated at
the neck with a strip of colored Grape,
and the whole is so arranged that these
strips show one beneath the other.
Sometimes belle will display half a
dozen or more OF these different-colored
strips, the effect being quite rainbowish.
If the weather is warm, the inner gar
ments are dispensed with, and the parti-
colored silks are sewed to the inner SIDE
of the kimono in number of plaits.
Stockings the Japanese woman does
not wear, except those who have adopted
the European fashions, while the shoe
is either sandal or clog.
The method of attachment is always
the same, soft loop into which the foot
is thrust. with thong to pass between
the great toe and the others.
The sandal (zari) is nearly always
made with straw sole and quilted top,
and is used for indoor wear, while the
clog (gita) is of wood. The height is
regulated by the fashionable aspirations
of the wearer.
The kimonos usually just clear the
ground. When the Japanese young
lady wishes to put on style, however, she
lengthens her kimoro. and adds to its
breadth in the lower portions, so that
1t shall spread out on the floor as she
stands.
This is her train, but must stand all
round her in bellshape. The nice man
agement of this train is great achieve
ment, and takes much practice to bring
about the true japanese angles and stiff
ness.
In the old days the kimonos worn by
the court ladies were something eXtraor-
binary in their voluminousness. They
were not only long behind, but also be-
fore. and the poor creature stumbling
along in one of these looked as though
she were shuflirg about on her knees.
1t is in her obi Tor SASH, however,
that the japanese lady takes her great
est pride. 1t is tied behind in bow
about foot square at the back. But
there are times when the modest little
bow will not suffice. and there are
ladies who go to excess in the size OF
the obi.
1t is made out of black silk. folded to
be fully yard wide, and it is tied in a
bow, whose ends extend fully three feet
across Moreover, 1t is worn in front,
and little to the side. and altogether ia
Q very stunning affair.