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ジオメトリック・サンセリフ / 1927– / Style / Type Classification
It reduced letterforms to the circle, the line and the triangle, trying to build the letters of a new era out of geometry rather than out of the habits of the hand.
Near-circular bowls / Monoline strokes / Geometric skeletons / Machine-age optimism
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ヒューマニスト・サンセリフ / 1916– / Style / Type Classification
Keeping the roman's skeleton and proportions without serifs, it stays functional while remembering the hand, which made it the standard for public signage.
Roman proportions / Open apertures / Gentle stroke modulation / High legibility at small sizes
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木活字ディスプレイ / 1827– / Technique / Type Classification
Gigantic letters cut from wood for broadside posters created the display vocabulary of extreme condensation, extension and ornament.
Gigantic sizes / Extreme condensing and extending / Carved ornament / Ink scuff and material grain
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カッパープレート・スクリプト / 17th–18th century– / Style / Lettering
The engraver's thin, fluent line produced the ideal of the written hand, and it settled into the letter of formality, of society and of certificates.
Hairline-and-swell contrast / Continuous strokes / Slanted oval skeleton / Flourishes
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サインペインティング / 19th century– / Technique / Lettering
A trade that paints commercial lettering with brush and paint straight onto buildings and windows, giving the street a lettering that carries the trace of a hand.
Strokes that keep the brush / Shades and outlines / One-shot strokes / Improvised to the site
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明朝体 / 19th century– / Style / Type Classification
It regularizes the kaisho skeleton into thin horizontals and thick verticals suited to carving, and with its uroko serifs it still carries the body text of Japanese.
Thin horizontals, thick verticals / Uroko serifs / Kaisho-derived skeleton / Steady text-block color
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ゴシック体 / late 19th century– / Style / Type Classification
The Japanese sans-serif of nearly even strokes: born for headline emphasis, it grew into the text face of the screen.
Even strokes / No uroko / High visibility / Fit for screen display
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モノスペース / 1874– / Style / Type Classification
Fixed-width letters born from the typewriter's mechanism, settled as the voice of work-in-progress: drafts, forms and code.
One advance width for all / Widened i, squeezed m / Mechanical rhythm / The air of unfinished work
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プライベート・プレス / 1891–1930s / Style / Publishing and Editing
A movement answering industrialized printing: type, paper, composition and binding unified under one ideal, remaking the book as a total work of art.
House-designed type / Handmade paper, hand presses / Margins designed by the spread / Illustration united with text
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ファッションプレート / 1770s–1930s / Technique / Fashion History
The illustrated medium that delivered the latest fashion in hand-colored prints, the ancestor of the magazine, the illustration and the style drawing.
Hand-colored linework / Idealized poses / Descriptive costume drawing / Periodical format
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ダンディズム / 1790s– / Style / Fashion History
A menswear aesthetic that makes a work of the self through tailoring, cleanliness and restraint rather than ornament. From it come the plain suit and a long line of self-assertion through dress.
Perfect tailoring / Restrained color / The cleanliness of white linen / Obsession with detail
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合理服運動 / 1850s–1900s / Style / Fashion History
A reform movement that refused the corset and the trailing hem and redesigned clothing around health and freedom of movement. In dress it is what functionalism is in design.
Bloomer-type garments / Refusal of the corset / Bicycles and sportswear / Form from function
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フラッパー / 1920s / Style / Fashion History
The 1920s woman who made the body's liberation visible in a straight silhouette, a short hem and bobbed hair, wearing the same period spirit that Art Deco gave to geometry.
Straight shift dresses / Bobbed hair / Dropped waists / Beads and fringe
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銘仙 / 1900s–1950s / Style / Fashion History
A popular kimono that carried bold abstract patterns and the bright colors of chemical dye on a cheap ikat technique. It was a Japanese modernism, translating Deco and the avant-garde into everyday dress.
Large abstract patterns / Vivid chemical dyes / Blurred kasuri edges / Everyday experimentation
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ズートスーツ / 1930s–1940s / Style / Subculture Style
The earliest street style: suits with wildly exaggerated shoulders and pegged trousers, by which Black and Mexican-American youth asserted their existence in a discriminatory society.
Exaggerated shoulders / Knee-length jackets / Pegged wide trousers / Long watch chains
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ニュールック / 1947–1950s / Style / Fashion History
Cinched waists and long skirts of lavish fabric turned away from wartime utility clothing and brought the curve back, opening the golden age of postwar couture.
Hourglass silhouettes / Abundant fabric / Rounded shoulders / Formality restored
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テディボーイズ / 1950s– / Style / Subculture Style
Working-class youths appropriated Edwardian upper-class dress. Postwar Britain's first youth subculture, it set the pattern for every youth culture that followed.
Long drape jackets / Slim ties / Crepe-soled shoes / The quiff
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モッズ / late 1950s–1960s / Style / Subculture Style
Slim Italian suits, scooters and modern jazz made a rebellion carried out through refinement, and completed the marriage of consumerism and youth culture.
Slim three-button suits / Military parkas / Scooters and mirrors / The target roundel
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ヒッピー・スタイル / 1960s–1970s / Style / Subculture Style
Refusing ready-made clothes and mixing handwork, folk dress and secondhand finds, it made the counterculture visible and brought DIY and eclecticism into fashion.
Handwork and embroidery / Mixed folk dress / Customized denim / Long hair, back to nature
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アイビー・スタイル / 1950s– / Style / Fashion History
The practical menswear system of America's East Coast universities, whose button-downs and blazers taught a broken-in correctness that reached the world through Japan and became the standard of trad.
Button-down shirts / 3/2-roll blazers / Loafers / Deliberately relaxed wear
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ヒップホップ・ファッション / 1970s– / Style / Street Style
Bronx youth culture turned sportswear and gold into a language of self-expression, and in fifty years it travelled from the street to the center of luxury.
Sneakers and tracksuits / Gold chains / Oversize / Logos flaunted and remade
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ゴス・ファッション / late 1970s– / Style / Subculture Style
The aesthetics of black dress born from post-punk music, borrowing Victorian mourning and horror-film signs to make darkness a communal style.
Black head to toe / Victorian borrowings / Pale skin, dark eyes / Silver jewelry
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ロリータ・ファッション / 1980s– / Style / Street Style
A Japanese street style referencing Rococo and girls' culture, building a community that constructs cuteness for oneself, not for the gaze of others.
Bell-shaped skirts / Frills and lace / Headdresses / Strict coordination rules
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ギャル / 1990s– / Style / Street Style
Tans, bleached hair and heavy makeup inverted everything school called correct. Born in Shibuya, it was a communal fashion that magazines and the street updated together.
Tanned skin / Bright hair / Emphatic eye makeup / Shibuya 109 shop culture
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