from Part V - Fashion, Colonialism, and Post-Colonialism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2023
On the urban streets of Cairo, Tokyo, or Mombasa, around 1900–1930s, clothing in multiple styles coexisted, including varied ‘European styles’, differently categorized in each location as part of local fashion culture: under full- or half-body covering veils, women in Cairo wore European-style dresses; next to groups of women in colourful kanga wrappers in Mombasa or meisen kimono in Tokyo, groups of working men wore uniform-like ‘Western’ business attire or simplified short-sleeved shirts and half-trousers.
Until recently, the adoption and diffusion of European-style clothing has been mainly discussed by region or group, mostly within the framework of national history.
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