Before the 1860s, Japanese clothing consisted entirely of a great variety of kimono.
They first appeared in the Jomon period, (14,500 B.C. ~ 300 B.C.), with no distinction
between male and female.
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The kimono (きもの) (着物?) is a Japanese traditional garment. The word kimono, which actually means a "thing to wear" (ki "wear" and mono "thing"), has come to denote these full-length robes.
