Taisho period Geisha dressed in glamorous attire with embroidered Obi and Susomawashi (lining at bottom of kimono)

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 33: A SAINT’S DAY AND DAY OF BRACES: －Here my sweetheart... on the occasion of my Saint’s day I’ve embroidered these braces!... －(The gentleman, aside.) Good God I’ve already got eleven pairs of them in my drawer... I won’t get away with it this time for less than fifty crowns!... women really take too great an advantage of our wearing trousers, so as to make us wear braces!..

MONOMANIACS 2: THE EMBROIDERER: An example of the error that nature sometimes commits in labelling the sexes. Thus, in the same way that you see so-called women who sport trousers, a kind of moustache, play the cornet, the double-bass, or who compose humanitarian novels; so you see so-called men who pluck the harp, hem ties, embroider at the frame with their men's hands, and if need be, do a little cooking