Costumes/types—Men (in general)

“Nearly all the Japps, both male and female, wore the high wooden clogs, even on which they look puny enough, but the dress of the men varied from the coarse blue gown or kimono of the coolies, worked with grotesque figures, or huge Chinese character on the back, to the latest English fashions and patent leather pups of the dandies.”

Arthur H. Crow, Highways and Byeways in Japan, (London, 1883) p. 12