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At last starting today,

I would be guiding Kitamura-san through women's clothing at his factory.

Even so, what kind of guy are they going to get to be the Director of that factory?

Ah, that is the crucial point, isn't it?

Yeah... It's not just their skills but their intuition that's important.

Getting someone who says they know the span of it all is fine...

...but how much I might have to explain that he doesn't know could make things difficult.

Heiwa Fansubs Presents...

Carnation

小さく丸めた躯は今

Chisaku marumeta karada wa ima

My body, tiny and curled up, is right now

Week 16 "A Shaken Heart" Episode 89

かなしみ隠し震えて

Kanashimi kakushi furuete

Trembling with hidden sorrows

Screenplay Watanabe Aya

Music Satō Naoki Musical Performance\h Face Music

Theme Song "Carnation" Sheena Ringo

命を表していろのね

Inochi o arawashite iro no ne

My life is represented by my color, isn't it

Cast

Ohara Itoko Ono Machiko

Ohara Chiyo Asau Yumi

重く濡らした瞼は今

Omoku nurashita mabuta wa ima

My eyelids, heavily soaked, are right now

Suo Ryūichi Ayano Gou

Kitamura Tatsuo Hosshan.

Masako Genkaku Yūko

よろこび映す日の為

Yorokobi utsusu hi no tame

Reflecting my rapture of this day

心を育てているのね

Kokoro o sodatete iru no ne

That's how a heart is raised, isn't it

Shinsaibashi, Kitamura's Factory

Good morning...

Good morning.

Ala...

This is a really good one.

Ehh...

It's stopped...

A friend should keep it properly wound.

Properly wound.

Good morning.

Ah, good morning.

Ah!

Ahh!

Ahh...

Out of order

This here's the Director. This is Suo Ryūichi, originally a tailor craftsman...

I know.

Suo Ryūichi

How would you know?

We met at the monthly meeting.

After that he came to help me at my store with some things.

Really?

Why didn't ya say anything about this?

Ah, well...

Still, well, that's a story from long ago.

Ah... Well well, that's fine.

Well then, without delay, um, shall we start discussing the sale of the clothes?

Ah, go ahead.

I'll get straight to the point.

Your clothes are popular, right?

Huh?

The polka-dotted ones!

Ah...

That's what we want to make.

Are you making fun of women's clothing?

Huh?!

Listen.

I could teach you how to make a good polka-dot dress.

But please, really think this through.

Are you really sure about that?

Ah... we can't?

Oi! Eh...

Fashion Scrapbook

You'll have to start studying from the very beginning.

And now this takes us into the war era.

These came close to becoming men's suits.

Both with the shoulder pads and in the overall design.

They're totally changed from the soft, feminine styles from before the war, aren't they?

And we didn't know what Western clothes were like during the many years of the war.

All we had were monpe.

Then, when the war ended, this was the first fashion to appear.

PanPan Girl

A PanPan girl.

That's right.

These girls were the first ones to dress up.

They were wonderfully stylish.

At first women turned a cold shoulder to them...

...but now they're mimicking them more and more.

And then...

I made this just a little while ago...

This is it!

This has been very fashionable since the spring of Showa 21. (1946)

But it's already been going on two years old now.

But even if it is two years old...

We can't do that?

Sorry to disappoint you, but even a dog wouldn't bite on this one anymore.

I see...

Now listen closely, Kitamura-san.

In women's wear...

It is the very nature of fashion to be strict and severe.

Once you've begun doing women's wear...

...unless you intend to prostrate yourself before it's laws, don't even get into it!

All right! I understand! You're too close!

Huh?

All right. Don't say anymore unnecessary things. Geez, I don't need anymore of this!

Huh?

I said I don't need this!

No, my talk is essential!

It's not essential to me! Ah... This guy, this guy... He'd LOVE to hear this "essential" talk of yours.

No, no, no.

Counting on ya!

No, please wait a moment.

I've had enough. Counting on ya!

No, please wait.

I've had enough, I said!

Wait!

Ah!

Um...

Yes?

And where does it go on from here?

Ah...

Let's see...

That is...

Let's see...

Ah, well anyhow, right now it's Dior!

Ah, Dior.

He's a designer in Paris...

...but announcements of clothes from him have captured attention from around the world.

Still well...

...due to the lack of fabric everywhere, they're not easy to make...

...but women all over the world are eager to wear them.

In that case...

Huh?

If this factory is to make such things, then this is the style we should try to emulate?

Ah...

That's right. That's what I was thinking.

Hmm...

Still, making it exactly the same is impossible.

Please look. Here, see, due to the amount of fabric needed.

Ah... It is quite a lot, isn't it?

Because we want to keep the selling price low, we just couldn't use this amount of fabric.

Still, I think it's best to stay as close to...

...the length and ambiance of it as we can.

That's true.

Ah, would you like me to draw it?

Ah, yes. If you would please.

Sensei, how did it go yesterday?

Huh?

With the Director of the factory. Did he seem like a good person?

Yeah...

Ah...

So-so I guess.

Hmm...

He has good intuitions...

...is well-informed and, well...

...I don't think he'll cause any troubles.

That's great then, isn't it?

Masa-chan, would you like seconds?

Ah, please.

Um, it's Suo-san see, and...

Um...

Suo-san?!

Ah... you remember him?

It was quite a while ago when he helped out around the store.

Of course I wouldn't forget him!

Suo-san?!

Ehh... Well... I want to meet him.

I'd like to meet him, too.

Right?

I want to meet him, too.

Well, that's great then.

Yeah.

Earlier I...

...had tried to hide that I had met Suo-san from everyone.

Why?

Because I felt guilty.

Over what? There's nothing to feel guilty about...

No, there is.

The guilt is there in the deepest parts of my heart...

Ah... What am I thinking!

Mustn't, mustn't, mustn't!

Work... Work!

Good morning.

Good morning.

There's that, isn't there?

You've already been here for quite a while this morning, haven't you?

Your face...

Eh?

It's red right around here somehow.

Is that so?

Did someone hit you?

No, no, no...

I'm fine.

I see.

Ah, this is difficult.

When you open it up a little here...

...it becomes more feminine, right?

Try it yourself.

Well...

...even so, he's easy to work with.

And then you finish it by pinning it here.

Yes.

Here.

Thank you.

Like I thought, this will be difficult.

Here you go.

Ah, thank you very much.

Even so, Suo-san.

What is it?

Why did you accept becoming the Director of this factory?

Because I love tailoring work.

But there's lots of tailoring work right now, isn't there?

Men are wanting to wear wonderful business suits, right?

But, thanks to that, anyway there's large numbers of tailors to make them.

Ah...

There are also many tailoring factories.

So I thought it would be best to take up with this factory.

Kitamura-san said he would pay me some very good wages.

Moreover, I thought it would be very interesting...

...to study about women's clothing.

Ehh...

You have an interest in women's clothing?

And then I heard that Ohara-san would be coming to guide me.

To Be Continued

Carnation

End

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