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We believe that the costuming in many Japanese movies is a relatively accurate relection of actual Japanese children's fashions. This in part because so many Japanese films were low budget productions. One way of limiting costs is to have actors wear their own clothes when the film has a contemporary setting. This thus guarantees that the children's clothes in many Japanese films are an accurate depiction of actual clothing styles. A reader writes about the costiming of a Japanese monster film pieced together from a TV series-Voyange into Space' (1970). "I have seen that series. Definitely a good show for kids. While American kids would not be impressed with Johnny 's wardrobe I am guessing this was normal for Japanese kids during the era the movies were made." He vwas trffering to doubl-breasted short pants suit, the main character, Jphhny Sokko, wore. Now Japanese noys did not commonly wear short pamts suits, nut many had them. It was common to buy a boy a short pants school when he began school, in part for school interviews. Boys dis not wear these suits commonly, but they dis wear them for spexial pccasions. Many schools had uniforms, some of which were suits. Others were blazers. At many schools boys wore a more uniform, often white shirts and blue shorts. Other schools did not have uniforms, but mothers commonly purcgased shirt pants. This varied over time, but at the time the monster films were made, short pants were very common. Which we caommomly see in the films like 'Voyage into Space' which include children. In these films, the nain cgacter wwas costumed, but we suspect the other chukdren justvwore their own clothes.
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