Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1920-10-22 | Page 6 | Paper Clothes in Japan

PAPER CLOTHES IN JAPAN Much Might Be Saved by Adopting Kimono as Everyday Dress. The Japanese have had paper clothes for many years and some of the most Tattractive kimonos in the Far East are tailored of wood pulp. An expert ex-pert on Japan insists that the layman will find it hard to distinguish these kimonos from the expensive silk wrappers. wrap-pers. "Everybody in Japan wears kimonos," ki-monos," he remarked, according to the New York Evening Post, "and the paper pa-per garments are very popular and inexpensive. in-expensive. For about $1.50 you can buj & ki.o-n." thit looks like a S-"iO outfit and feels like it, too. The paper pa-per is soft and pliable and it can be draped gracefully about the figure. If Americans, men, women and children alike, could be converted to the H-mono H-mono ns everyday dress, paper clothing might become the only wear."