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fashion design reference, fashion history, geta - traditional Japanese footwear, high top sneakers with wood platform soles
Fashion design is a form of revisionist historical study,
as inspiration often references the past.
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Spotted:
Current Japanese street style
An east meets west
contemporary fashion interpretation
of geta footwear:
High top trainers on a wood platform
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(image from style.com)
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The Geta:
fashion history notes
Japanese
Traditional
Clog like shoes
Dates back to the Heian Period (794 – 1192)
Inaugurating more “native” Japanese dress sensibility
Elevated to fashion high status in urban areas during the
Edo Period (1603 -1867)
Fashion function: offer elevation to keep hems of
expensive kimono off the ground
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(image from allaboutshoes.com):
Woman ( standing) wearing the geta.
Suzuki Harungobu, 1769
Brooklyn Museum of Arts, New York
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