This study investigates the market for traditional dress in Japan in the second half of the 20th century. The textile industry has been regarded as a gdecliningh or mature industry in Japan since around the 1970s, and imports from developing countries with lower wages have increased rapidly....

The production of simple silk fabric, called habutae or habutai, expanded rapidly from 1890 to the end of the 1910s in Fukui prefecture, and it was exported to Europe and the U.S. Habutae was initially woven by hand looms in cottage enterprises and, hence, its production was labor intensive. It...