번역샘플 - 디자인(Design)

Many grey kimonos produced during the Meiji era were worn mainly as semiformal attire, favored because grey was regarded to be a standard color that would not easily fall down from fashion. Semiformal attire would not be worn often but would be kept for several years. Furthermore, it was a convenient color for producers, for instance, kimono merchants and dyers, because, again, it was not easily influenced by fashion and because a traditional dyeing method could be used to create its shades. Ink dye was mainly as grey dye, but as logwood, a natural dye, began to be imported from the West around Maiji 10 (1877) dyeing with logwood gradually gained popularity, thereby meeting the demand of grey fabrics. When grey chemical dyes began to be imported in large numbers later, they gained currency instead of logwood dye. The growing demand for grey kimonos in the Meiji era resulted from changes in people’s attitude toward the color itself, as well as the introduction of new dyes and dyeing techniques from the West, which met the demand for grey fabrics.