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Fashion in Japan is very different than modern day fashion in the US. For example, they wear kimonos (long robes), and we wear shirts, jeans, etc. The nobles wore silk robes. Noble women also wore long gowns with about 12 layers of silk to show their wealth.

Gold jewelry was also "big" there. Fashion was considered a form of art, and there were strict rules about it. That may sound strange to you, but it's actually a lot like today. If you were to wear something innapropriate somewhere public, people would think you're weird and you would be humiliated because that isn't part of the dress code. The same applies in Japan. If you wore something you shouldn't have, you would have been shamed. Accessory wise, both men and women carried around fancy fans with either paintings or calligraphy poems on them.

What was considered beautiful is way different in Japan than in the US. Round white faces with tiny mouths, very high, thin eyebrows (shaved natural brows then painted on ones), hair would be longer than you were tall, and they rubbed iron on their teeth to black them out so you couldn't see them as well (since they made themselves have tiny mouths). That was all considered very beautiful. You weren't supposed to sleep during the day because it was said that when you are sleeping you are ugly. So they never did sleep during the day. As you can tell, fashion back then is way different than modern day fashion here.

lol this was my paper on it from back in school hope this helps :)

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