Whats Kimono?
Originally the word, Kimono was a generic term for clothing. It literally meant things to wear, and that’s what everyone in Japan used to wear before Meiji era. However after western clothes were introduced to Japan, the word came to mean traditinal Japanese clothes as opposed to the new western clothes. Also the word, Wafuku (Japanese clothes) is often used to describe Kimono these days as opposed to the word, Youfuku (western clothes).
