
A 1929 advertisement for the Shirokiya department store featuring actresses walking on the beach at Kamakura, Japan. | src wikimedia
images that haunt us

A 1929 advertisement for the Shirokiya department store featuring actresses walking on the beach at Kamakura, Japan. | src wikimedia

Kageyama Koyo :: Mogas’ Beach Pyjama Style, Ginza, Tokyo, 1928. This image of three
young moga (modern girls)
strutting confidently down the street in full beach-going
attire, sizing up the camera like a potential suitor, shows just how
powerful, and even a little subversive, beach culture had become. | src The Japan Times