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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 20 "I Want To Protect You" Episode 112

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

Ohara Yūko Niiyama Chiharu

Ohara Naoko Kawasaki Asami

Ohara Satoko Yasuda Misako

Kinomoto Eisaku Kōmoto Masahiro

Matsuda Megumi Rokkaku Seiji

よろこび映す日の為

Yorokobi utsusu hi no tame

Reflecting my rapture of this day

Kitamura Tatsuo Hosshan.

Sae Kurotani Tomoka

Masako Genkaku Yūko Kajimura Satoru\h Uchida Shige Kinomoto Shirō \h Jōdoi Daichi

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

In Showa 35...

...Yves Saint-Laurent said this.

"Tomorrow's silhouettes will be extremely simple"

"Tomorrow's silhouettes will be extremely simple."

Hey Satoko.

Huh?

Showa 35 (1960) October

What does "simple" mean?

"Simple?"

Yeah.

Dunno...

What about "silhouette?"

I have no idea.

We're no good without an English dictionary around.

You have a hole in your socks.

Eh?

Make sure to sew it up.

Yes!

Okay!

Thanks for the food.

Hey you.

Huh?

Huh?

You should praise Satoko from time to time.

Huh?

She needs some love...

That's why she put her legs over your knees like that.

For what?

Ah, geez...

She's trying to tell you, "With these legs, I'm doing my best at tennis, too."

Ah...

Notice those things.

You're her one and only mother.

Yeah...

Speaking of which, Satoko seems to have won...

...the Chichibunomiya Award in tennis.

Certificate of Commendation

Ohara Satoko-dono

What's up?

Why are you doing that?

This is the important certificate...

...that our treasured Satoko has worked so hard for.

Satoko is a great girl. I'm thankful for this.

Nanmandabu nanmandabu Merciful Buddha

There...

That Country Mode

This is good, isn't it?

It is good.

Um... What do the young people who come to your store think?

Do they know of the Paris Mode these days?

Yes! I think they're incredibly interested in it!

Do they think, "I really want to wear that?"

They do.

Even so, don't they think, "I wouldn't look good in those?"

They wouldn't think such a thing.

In any event, they want to wear them!

"I want to wear the clothes of this new era," is what they're thinking.

Ahh!

Ahh!

Thanks for the business!

Ah, Kitamura-san's come!

Thanks for waiting!

Sorry about this.

I am busy.

Eh? Why him?

Kitamura-san's today's lecturer.

On what?

On the ready-made clothing business.

Ready-made clothing?

Yeah.

And, I think you feel that Ready-made has meant cheap goods up until now.

Pret-a-porter

Even so, this pret-a-porter idea has come out recently.

Pret-a-porter - "ready to wear" or "off-the-rack"

Luxury, ready-made clothing.

At this time, ready-made clothing had begun spreading in earnest...

...and those people who were in the custom-made trade...

...were gradually considering seriously making the change over to it.

They are mass produced at domestic factories.

Pret-a-porter

Then what happens is...

I couldn't figure out why they were listening to Kitamura's lecture so seriously.

This can lower the price to less than half off!

Ahh!

Ridiculous!

Ohara Dressmaking Store

Long ago I used to eagerly await such changes in the times...

...but now I was scared somehow.

American Commercial Firm

American things like jeans were selling like crazy.

Getas had been completely replaced by shoes.

Sorry, we're reconfiguring our business

I am now forty-seven.

When Dad took down his dry-goods signboard, he was fifty.

Ohara Dressmaking Store

Good afternoon!

Ala! It's Sae-obachan!

Well.... Hey, Yūko!

Your stomach's quite prominent!

It is. Thankfully, I'm now in my seventh month.

Whaa!

Let me touch it a little!

Sure, sure.

Ah!

Ala! Welcome!

My!

Well... It's been ages!

Good afternoon!

You're looking as good as ever!

Yeah, I'm in super good health.

Right!

Sae was now the Mama of a high class bar in Shinsaibashi...

...and would bring around her young employees from time to time.

Yeah. How about something like this?

I want a few more lines like this put in it.

Even so, recently the most popular ones have been more...

Don't want that!

It doesn't matter to me what's in vogue right now.

What I'm asking for doesn't look like those appappas they have right now!

Not a single one of my customers would be pleased with those!

Anyhow...

...it should grip tightly here...

...and flow out gracefully to her feet.

Right?

A dress...

...should show a woman off to a premium of two or three times over.

That's different from what's popular.

What is it, Ito-chan?

What's the matter?

You...

...really are charming.

Eh? What about?

Where did you get such a spirit!

Please tell me.

I'm...

...not out to be seen as greedy.

All I've wanted since long ago...

...was just to be respected.

By who?

Men.

I'm way beyond greedy.

I can't say I want just one thing like Sae.

I want to make clothes that I think would be good...

...but I also want a good business.

I feel I'm caught up in the tides of fashion...

...but I wouldn't like being behind the times either.

Ahh... Oh well.

It's ridiculous.

It's obvious that just spirit is needed.

But what is it I really want?

Naoko, what are you gonna do after graduation?

I'm starting a shop in a Tokyo department store.

Showa 35 (1960) December

Department store?

Yeah.

A place with a youth corner...

...that'll draw them into my store.

Oh, pret-a-porter?

No. Custom-made to start with.

But, if my shop does become famous...

...I think I'll loan my name out to a line of pret-a-porter like Pierre Cardin does.

That's it. That's our Naoko!

Look, in the long run...

...no matter what your sales numbers are for the cheap stuff, it won't amount to much.

I guess it's just when you sell the high-end stuff you can get the serious profits.

Making high quality pret-a-porter by the ton and selling them by the ton's the ticket.

That's it.

So as a well-known designer...

...I'll want people to see me as being high-end.

That's it! Just by sticking your name tag to them, look, you'll get a ton of sales!

Right!

Should you be saying such things again?

Huh?

Who was it that was arrested for selling fakes?

Haven't you learned your lesson yet?!

No, it's not that. This time around, they wouldn't be fakes.

Have a sense of shame! Shame!

Arrested?

Eh?

What for? Sir, you were arrested?

From the bottom of the bottom...

...this guy's even more of a fool than I am.

There!

Ah... you're heavy!

Hey... Hey, get off!

Get off! Stop it! Geez.

I'm trying to read my manga. Geez.

There.

Hey you.

Huh?

What are you going to do?

Huh?

Your future.

Go to junior college.

Not that, geez...

AFTER you've graduated from junior college.

Ah...

I'm not really sure about that yet.

You should become a tennis player.

Hmm...

I wonder if that would please Mom much?

Mom?

Yeah.

Even though I brought home an award, she was only slightly pleased.

She was thrilled back when you won the Sō-rei Award though.

Your Chichibunomiya Award?

Yeah.

But that's a wonderful award.

Hmm...

That was a far better award than the Sō-rei Award.

Hmm... Still, unless it's related to Mom's line of work...

...seems it doesn't matter to her as much.

It is good.

It should matter to Mom.

Yeah...

You should do your own thing.

Yeah...

American Commercial Firm

Showa 36 (1961) New Year's Day

Eh!?

Sir!

Huh?

You're closing your business?

Yeah...

I...

...never was much good at business from the start.

It was only by chance I hit it big with the electronics shop...

What'll you do once the store's closed?

Well...

...thing is...

...the other day...

...the owner of "Taiko" was saying...

"I want to give up my coffee shop."

Eh? Really?

That's right!

"You would treasure this store far more than anyone else would," he said!

Ehh! That's great! Do it, do it!

I'll do it, I'll do it!

Life is gentle and...

...without speaking to their wants...

...will suddenly place into a person's hand, with a poof, a treasure.

Rie-chan.

Yūko's Eldest Daughter Rie

Rie-chan, you're so cute.

Right?

Do you want to hold her, Auntie?

That's okay... Grandma.

Well, go ahead and hold her, Auntie.

That's okay, Grandma!

No, no, I'm not a Grandma, Auntie.

Grandma. This is your Grandma.

To Be Continued

Carnation

End

Stylishly Dressed Photo Gallery

Posing in a Flare Skirt One-piece Dress (Showa 30 (1995) Tokyo Bridge)