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This paper discusses the image of women of the Taisho era in the women’s　graphic magazine, Fujin-gaho from the point of view of the relationship between women and cloth. Women’s morality has been connected with treating cloth: making clothes means to sit straight and silently keep working hard inside a house while wearing clean, plain clothes meant to keep men’s eyes away. Both actions are connected to women’s chasteness. However, in modern times, the meanings of the two actions began to diverge. On making clothes, although the kind of handiwork had changed from sewing to embroidery or hemstitch of handkerchiefs which was the status symbol of the middleclass, the morality of women’s chasteness remained. On the other hand, on wearing clothes, the morality diminished and geisha’s way of dressing was regarded attractive and their fashion began to fit into general women’s fashion. Also, handkerchiefs became an item to express sadness or coquetry of women and to appeal to men. One of the reasons of the mixture of women’s appearance is the development of consumerism. The other is the succession of Japanese traditional feminine gesture using a cloth such as waving or biting a cloth. Women’s beauty in modern times caused by these two factors was encouraged by the medium of graphic magazines.

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