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Flower Print Vintage Dress for Summer :)
Styling and Photography by THE WHITEPEPPER
Harper’s Bazaar, 1952
Photo by Lillian Bassman
“A woman with a katana (sword) at her side and a wooden or bamboo shaft of another implement on her back.
Although, I initally thought that she might be a woman of the Samurai Class, after further research I think that she is in fact a dancer, probably a Geiko (Geisha), dressed to perform the Katana Odori (sword-dance). The book entitled “The Story of the Geisha Girl” by Taizo Fujimoto, first published in 1917, mentions that some Geisha learn the sword-dance as one of their accomplishments (page 2 and page 99), but it gives no further details.”
Have you made any New Year’s resolutions?
(Source: bedtimeforbees)
Glynis Johns in “Miranda” 1948
Rope Walk by Heinrich Kley, c. 1915
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