By JUNKO SAIMOTO/ Staff Writer
January 31, 2022 at 06:30 JST
The hem of a long and stylish “juban” undergarment shows beneath the short bottom of a kimono in this portrait of Sheila Cliffe in “Sheila Kimono Style Plus,” a stylebook from Tokai Education Research Institute. (Photo by Nichole Fiorentino)
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