Word: kimonos
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...Japs are probably laughing up their large kimono sleeves at the gullibility of the American press, which fell in line with this propaganda scheme by printing the catastrophe story as an item of fact," Leet asserted...
Then, to back up the designers, leading U.S. women were asked to make reassuring statements. Said Adela Rogers St. Johns: "The overdressed woman will be as unpatriotically conspicuous as though she wore a Japanese kimono." Cracked Irvin S. Cobb's daughter Elisabeth: "I'll cheerfully lose my skirt to keep our liberty...
...resignation, the Emperor summoned to his seaside resort Marquis Koichi Kido, his new Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal, traditional adviser on choice of officials. Marquis Kido, who is barely five feet tall, weighs only 120 pounds, requires only two-thirds of the orthodox amount of silk for a kimono, and has such tiny feet that he has to buy children's shoes, humbly begged a short period of reflection. The period was as short as he is, for Marquis Kido's mind was all made up. So was the Emperor's mind, the Army...
Outside of the story itself, the picture is apt to irritate any one who has been to Honolulu, because of the heavy fog and the overcoats that appear in one scene of the picture. Another small point: although Chan is meant to be Chinese, his bathrobe is a Japanese kimono. You can figure that...
...huge Japanese lay half asleep on the immaculate mats of his living-room floor. Wall panels had been pulled wide so that he could contemplate his precise garden and bask in the afternoon sunshine. His brown, rough-silk kimono lay open from shoulder to ankle, his undershirt was unbuttoned, he wiggled his toes in white, mitten-like socks. His radio blared a grunt-by-grunt account of the winter sumo wrestling matches...