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Izu Dancer Cosplay

Kawabata's story "The Dancing Girl of Izu" starts off just here, at the north entrance to the Amagi Tunnel. They held a dance festival there in 2010. Source.

Red Figure Leggings

Source.

Golden Kamuy Cosplay

Source. Golden Kamuy.

Henry VIII's Cap of Maintenance

Explanation.

Ook-Took

Geraldine Moodie made this portrait of a very well turned out Inuit women, Ook-Took, at Fullerton Harbour on Hudson's Bay between 1903 and 1905. Ook-Took is wearing a beaded parka or attigi, braids, and a print skirt with an oriental design of fans and blossoms. See also. And.

Asuka Bijin

Four female figures from the Takamatsuzuka Tomb (c. 700 AD) discovered in the 1960s near Asuka, Nara Prefecture. They are big into Korean styles. Source.

Recreation. Source.

What to Wear?

Celebrities agree! It's hoops!

Morton visit Kilmarnock for the highlight match of Group H. These two clubs have not met since August 25th, 2009, when Killie knocked Morton out of the League Cup of that year.

Currently, Morton sit atop Group H. But that's just because they've played one more game than Kilmarnock, who are still favourites to win the group. Morton's job is to finish among the top four second-place clubs, which means scraping for every point. It would be good to get a point off Killie, to make up for the one Morton lost to Albion Rovers.

Morton wear blue and white hoops. Kilmarnock wear blue and white stripes. But it hasn't always been so. Sometimes Morton have worn stripes, and sometimes Killie have worn hoops. Have they ever shown up in the same kit? Sounds like a job for Historical Football Kits:

Kilmarnock

1873-1887    blue

1887-1890    black and white stripes

1890-1895    blue

1895-1904    blue and white stripes

1904-1906    blue

1906-1961    blue and white hoops

1961-1962    blue and white stripes

1962-1963    blue and white hoops

1963-1972    blue and white stripes

1972-1973    blue

1973-1977    white with three blue stripes

1977-1989    blue and white hoops

1989-1993    blue and white stripes

1993-1994    white

1994-1997    blue and white stripes

1997-1998    white

1998-today   blue and white stripes

 Morton

1874-1886    blue and white hoops

1886-1892    blue and white stripes

1892-1896    red

1896-1955    blue and white hoops

1958-1963    white

1963-1967    blue and white stripes

1967-1969    white

1969-1974    blue and white hoops

1974-1976    blue and white stripes

1977-1989    blue and white hoops

1989-1991    white with a blue diagonal

1991-1993    blue and white zigzags

1993-1995    tartan

1995-1996    blue and white stripes

1996-today   blue and white hoops

So:

1906-1955    both wore blue and white hoops

1963-1967    both wore blue and white stripes

1977-1989    both wore blue and white hoops

1995-1996    both wore blue and white stripes

How many of those years did Morton and Killie play in the same division? 42. They played 32 seasons together from 1906 to 1955 wearing hoops, two seasons together in the Sixties wearing stripes, and eight seasons together from 1977 to 1989 wearing hoops.

Which SPFL teams wear blue? Cowdenbeath, Dundee, Falkirk, Forfar, Morton, Inverness CT, Kilmarnock, Montrose, Peterhead, Queen of the South, Raith, Rangers, Ross County, St Johnstone, Stranraer. Which SPFL teams wear green? Celtic, Hibs. Which team has never worn green? Greenock.

What was Morton's worst showing in the League Cup? In the years when the League Cup was strictly a knockout tournament, a bad showing meant going out in Round One. But in the group stage era, it meant sticking around for as many as six losses. Did Morton ever do that? Yes, in 1959-60, Group 8. They lost to Alloa, Cowdenbeath, St Johnstone, then Alloa, Cowdenbeath, and St Johnstone again. They scored 6 goals, and allowed 17. And in the middle of that they played their first league match and lost 3 - 1 . . . to East Stirlingshire.

Declan McManus has signed with Raith Rovers.

[Morton win 0 - 2. Goals by Oliver and Quitongo. Group H now:

Morton            8

Albion             3

Killie                3

Berwick           2

Clyde              2

Morton have Tuesday off, which will allow the others to gain ground on them. But as Albion and Killie have yet to play each other, they cannot both finish with 9 points.]

In other competitions:

Cobh Ramblers [1 - 1] UCD

Tomorrow: TB [0 - 1] B36

Tomorrow: Tochigi [1 - 0] Blaublitz Akita

Day after tomorrow: Elfsborg vs Östersund

The International Champions Cup begins today. What is the International Champions Cup? It's a world tour of big European clubs looking to turn brand recognition into money, money, money. This is the third edition. Today Celtic play Leicester City in Glasgow. [1 - 1. Leicester win on penalty kicks.]

Trapper John's pinstripe suit.

Norwegian Bridal Crown

Frumpy Kamakura

Kamakura lady. Source.

Eiga Monogatari is an account of Heian court life written during the Kamakura period, a century or two after the events recorded. Enough change had occurred in fashions that the anonymous author felt compelled to observe:

    When one hears tales of earlier days, one can scarcely believe that ladies went about in public dressed in so few layers of clothing and with so little padding in their garments. One wonders how they managed to keep warm even at home, since ladies nowadays are always suffering from ailments caused by the weather, though they pile on so many layers that they are in danger of looking like frumps. But that was the fashion, and we must suppose that even a Junior Consort or Empress wore only a fraction of what we would consider an adequate costume.

A Tale of Flowering Fortunes, volume 1, page 218, trans. McCullough and McCullough.

Sarasa Kosode

An Edo Period robe incorporating Indian sarasa patchwork. Source.