There was a time when no self-respecting twentysomething Japanese woman with a modicum of style would have been seen out and about in a kimono.

• 诠释着大和民族文化的和服曾一度被认为是过时之物而受到日本现代女性的冷遇。然而，时尚之都东京如今又掀起了一股和服热。