The Archive · 1939

Geisha in Khaki

Japanese Girls Don War-

Time Dress for Hankow The N.Y.K. Wayside wharf presented a unique scene on Saturday afternoon as seven stunning, wide-eyed geisha girls in khaki drab tripped daintily down the gangplank of the Kamakura Maru, along with 829 other passengers, the Japanese press reported yesterday, Chaperoned by Mr. Sukeji Otsuka, Deputy Mayor of Takata, Niigata Prefecture, the "suburban bred" girl entertainers from that small town are going to Hankow and other ports to add gaiety to the night lite of troops on leave. The "Tairiku Shimpo" described ihe girls as "captivating."

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