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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 21 "A Vivid Attitude" Episode 121

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 Yūko Niiyama Chiharu

重く濡らした瞼は今

Omoku nurashita mabuta wa ima

My eyelids, heavily soaked, are right now

Ohara Naoko Kawasaki Asami

Ohara Satoko Yasuda Misako

Kinomoto Eisaku Kōmoto Masahiro

よろこび映す日の為

Yorokobi utsusu hi no tame

Reflecting my rapture of this day

Matsuda Megumi Rokkaku Seiji

Kitamura Tatsuo Hosshan.

Sae Kurotani Tomoka

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

Kioka Yasuo Uesugi Shōzō Masako\h Genkaku Yūko

Kioka Miyo Iijima Junko Kinomoto Setsuko \h Nishimura Ayako Murayama\h Someya Yuka

Showa 40 (1965) March

Good afternoon.

Ala, good afternoon.

Is your Mom around?

She is.

Mooom! Mom!

Yes!

It's Oba-chan.

Ah, good afternoon.

Ahh... Ito-chan, sorry when you're so busy.

Yeah.

Look.

Do you know about this Ivy League style thing?

"Ivy League style?"

Mmm.

Recently young boys have been coming in and asking...

"Why don't you have any Ivy League style shoes available?" like that.

Ahh... ones different from loafers?

These shoes are loafers.

Ivy League is just a famous style of them.

That's the name of these clothes?

Well...

...it refers to an entire line of clothing.

That's the Ivy League style.

This style of clothing is famous?

Yeah. That's how it is these days.

In Showa 40...

Huh?

...the Ivy League style, what Kioka-obachan had come to ask about...

...was all the rage.

Osaka, Shisaibashi

Kitamura felt certain that business would be good...

That's right.

If I had just been serious about getting into Ivy League, I'd be making a profit on it by now.

Eh?

You're only now getting into Ivy?

I have. But even so, only halfway.

The other half, look...

...was spent investing in my raising-a-designer plan. The loss from that left me even.

You're a fool.

Your greed is so boring.

No, no, but it's from here on that counts.

I can't recover my investment from those who join in next...

...but I do have my star of hope. Look, she's over there.

First she gains a track record in haute couture...

...and then when Ohara Yūko becomes a famous leading designer, that's when we win the game.

Then we can do pret-a-porter!

The "Yūko Ohara Collection!"

Kitamura's talk was always interesting, but...

He's unrealistic...

...and everything I heard from him was ridiculous.

That's true.

Well still...

...that talk might not be so unrealistic.

Eh?

Well Sensei, please consider this.

Both Yū-chan and Nao-chan may seem unreliable when you look at them...

...but it's true that the younger won the Sō-rei award...

...and the other one turned a store in a Tokyo department store around...

...and made it popular, didn't she?

Ah...

Well...

Wouldn't it be best to have a little more faith in them?

Well...

I can't believe in them that much.

Eh?

With Ms. Mean and Ms. Perverse. There's a big difference.

Ms. Mean and Ms. Perverse?

And then the youngest one is...

Ms. Fool!

Mean, perverse and the fool!

That's a good one!

Mooom!

I drew Murayama-san's design, but...

Where is it?

This again!?

Huh?

Why have you made the skirt so short again for?

Ah...

I can't?

You were told by a customer just the other day that this was "shameless."

So you're drawing it again?

Yeah.

Well, this design may not be the right answer.

This seems a bit too short...

...but then again, short might be fine...

However much I thought about them, I just couldn't wrap my head around these things...

For the time being, I've done this drawing.

Is that right?

So I decided she should ask the customer.

Whaa!

Well... The length of the skirt is a little...

Too much?

Yeah... I guess it's a little too short.

Well, even so!

Eh?

Ah, forgive me for butting in.

That sort of shortness is embarrassing to you?

Ah... Yeah. That's right.

You don't like being embarrassed, but aren't you really thinking you'd like to try wearing it?

Ah...

I really am thinking that.

Really?!

You're really thinking about wearing such a thing...

...and going out walking with your legs and knees bared?!

Shh!

Sensei! Your voice is too loud.

You're embarrassing the customer!

Shh!

Right!

Forgive me, forgive me.

Ah... Please continue.

You'll consider it?

Yes.

Ahhh...

...so that's it!

A woman...

...when she gets to a point where she feels she's pretty...

...she wants to show herself off to people as much as possible.

It's only natural.

Ah...

Like back when you made me my first evening dress...

...and the back was all open.

Hmm.

I was so happy when I put that on.

"Kyaa!"

"It's great I'll get to show off my back like this," I thought.

So when I was able to go out in it...

...I was wonderfully happy.

Hmm...

Happy...

Yeah.

A short skirt...

Skirt length 20cm longer

A short skirt.

What young girls in their innermost thoughts want to wear...

Ah, I'll get it.

Yes, hello, this is Ohara Dressmaking Store.

Hello?

Hello? Hello?

Ah, Nao-chan?!

Huh?

Naoko?

Paris?

You're in Paris right now?!

Eh?! Sato... Sato-chan?

Wha... what is it?

Mi, mi, mi... Mini... jyu? Jyupe? Jyupo?

Mini-jupe.

Take your time.

Thank you very much.

Congratulations on opening your store!

Thank you so very much.

I will take one.

Please wait just a moment.

Yes.

Just one more!

Excuse me... Are you Yūko-san's sister, Naoko-san?

Yes.

Ah, I saw you in "Sō-Rei!"

Please let me shake your hand.

Sure.

Right! Thank you very much.

Can I, too?

Yes, of course.

Sir, thank you.

Congrats! You've done it.

Kitamura! Come here, come here!

It's wonderfully successful, huh?

Oh, thanks, thanks, thanks.

Look.

Huh?

Say.

About that short skirt.

Huh?

We're starting on it tomorrow! We're gonna make this!

Eh?

I think I was naive.

It was no good going just halfway in the shortness.

We needed to be wonderfully, wonderfully short.

It'll definitely sell. We'll sell them to death.

Ta-dah!

Wha... What is that, oi!

What do you think?

Of that length.

Well, that's... That's...

Ah, change clothes, change clothes. Hurry and change clothes!

That's enough.

Look.

In Paris there are mini-jupes and short skirts.

Courreges announced them in his Paris Collection for spring.

Genta told me...

..."The girls who are wearing Chanel this winter will all switch over to this come spring."

"Everyone considers it to be a beautiful length."

Hurry and change clothes, I said! Exposing your knees all the time like that, oi!

You still have to go out as a bride!

I don't mind.

It's not whether you mind. Don't move around like that, oi

Well, even so, Kitamura.

Huh?

It's a dreadful thing...

...but the times are changing.

Into what?

From here on, Japanese girls'll be exposing their legs.

Bringing them out. Not being able to marry...

Well in the first place...

...this won't particularly affect them getting married.

Huh?

What's this, you? That's a scary way of talking.

Well...

...to be honest I'm a little scared, too.

We can't see what the era'll bring.

But this much is certain.

Short skirts'll catch on.

Make it.

Make it.

Make it.

Make it.

Make it.

Make it.

Make it.

Make it.

Originally, the mini-skirt was the fashion of young girls in London...

Showa 41 (1966) April

...so when they appeared in the foremost Paris Collections...

...the fashion world was all abuzz with talk about the juniors supplanting the seniors.

But we still didn't know about such things...

...and anyhow, girls were just happy to be able to expose their legs again after so many years.

Yo, Kitamura-chan!

Oh, oh! Thanks for the business.

You've got black eyes.

It's sunglasses.

Thank you.

How is it?

Is it profitable?

It is profitable, thanks to you.

Profits are pouring in.

What is it?

Not happy with that?

Well, I'm happy...

...but I can't walk around anywhere. I don't know what I'm gonna see next!

What a problem for the Sir!

Won't long skirts be popular next time around?

Well... For the time being they'll be short.

Really?

Over the long history of Japan, not once have they been able to bring them out like this.

They wouldn't get over them so soon, now would they?

Ah...

Better get used to it.

How depressing...

Huh?

It's fine to look at such nice figures.

Just don't let them see you checking them out.

Well, even so...

...in our time, that was very shameful...

Shameful?

You can't feed a dog on such things anymore.

Well, even so...

Sir!

It's a pity...

...but the things of your era can't restrict the things of now.

The times just keep on changing.

It's okay for girls to expose their legs. They won't mind even if their fathers scold them.

They won't mind even it means they can't go for brides.

That's the times these are!

Better hurry and change your way of thinking or you'll be left behind.

So long, thanks.

Thank you.

In Showa 41...

...the legs of a young girl...

...had just trampled upon Kitamura's era.

Oi!

To Be Continued

Oi!

Week 22 "Youth Without Regret"

Carnation

End

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Homemade Herringbone Suit (Showa 45 (1970), Fukuoka-ken)