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Tsugaru Sashiko

Aomori Prefecture combines territories once controlled by the Tsugaru and Nambu domains. A difference between the two areas is the way they embroidered kimono: Tsugaru is monochrome, Nambu is coloured. Read more about it here.

DakhaBrakha Have the Best Hats

Source. Watch a short concert.

Lillehammer Winter Olympics Sweater

Designed by Margaretha Finseth. Source.

Beaded Mittens, ca. 1885

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Stovepipe Hat

See here for a collection of 19th-Century photographs of Welsh women in stovepipe hats.

The Fair Isle Jumper

The Fair Isle Jumper by Stanley Cursiter, 1923. Source.

Yoshida Kōgyō Kabushikigaisha

Canada sometimes claims to be the birthplace of the zipper, but YKK of Tokyo really ran with it.

Femme de la région de Taza - Zaïan, 1939

Photo by Jean Besancenot. Source. Visit La Maison de la Photographie website for more Moroccan photography.

The Master of the Blue Jeans

Blue denim has been worn in Italy since the 16th Century. The word "jeans" possibly derives from the placename Genoa. An anonymous 17th-Century painter who specialized in portraits of peasants dressed in denim is now known as the Master of the Blue Jeans.

Barbara Kawakami

Barbara Kawakami is an expert on the clothing worn by Japanese agricultural workers in Hawaii. Source. She is the author of Picture Bride, a history of Japanese women sent to Hawaii to marry. Read an article by Kawakami, and watch a video.