Author: Catalogue - hats. Watanabe, Tokyo.
Title: The Watanabe's Catalogue : Full fashioned and hand finished. Y. Watanabe & Co., Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan.
Description: Tokyo, [1924]. 23x15cm colour illustrated publisher's wrapper; 6pp, profusely illustrated with photo illustrations. An old fold, small stains. ¶ 72 models of hats for men and women; not just women, mogas - modern girls - jazz age women. So, flappers and cool, sinister men; the stuff of dreams. Mention is made of the first anniversary of the 1923 earthquake but the "New Fashion 1924" on the front cover is an even better guide to its date.
Keywords: trade catalogues fashion clothes hats c20th Japan modernism manufactures
Title: The Watanabe's Catalogue : Full fashioned and hand finished. Y. Watanabe & Co., Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan.
Description: Tokyo, [1924]. 23x15cm colour illustrated publisher's wrapper; 6pp, profusely illustrated with photo illustrations. An old fold, small stains. ¶ 72 models of hats for men and women; not just women, mogas - modern girls - jazz age women. So, flappers and cool, sinister men; the stuff of dreams. Mention is made of the first anniversary of the 1923 earthquake but the "New Fashion 1924" on the front cover is an even better guide to its date.
Keywords: trade catalogues fashion clothes hats c20th Japan modernism manufactures
Price: AUD 150.00 = appr. US$ 103.78 Seller: Richard Neylon, Bookseller
- Book number: 11009
- Book number: 11009