The principal garment worn by Japanese ladies is the kimono. This outer garment or coat is made of silk, generally of a quiet color ornamented with Japanese designs; or, for general purposes, of figured calico, turkey red or orange cotton. The back has no seam and the front is open from top to bottom, sloping outward below the waist to show the underskirt; the neck is trimmed V shaped, or faced and turned over to form a collar, bringing to view a colored kerchief folded across the breast; the sleeves are loose and end in long, wide, rectangular-shaped bags, wide open from wrist down and lined. The underskirt, only visible in front, is of a different color and richly ornamented with gilt and bright Japanese designs.

To complete the costume, a long, wide sash is passed twice around the waist and gathered behind into an immense butterfly bow and ends.

The hair is arranged in pompadour style, and the back hair brought high up on the top of the head and ornamented with large, showy pins and little fans.

The eyebrows should be penciled black. Two fine black lines, one above the upper and one below the lower eyelash, continued outward, curved slightly upward and meeting just beyond the outer corner of each eye, give quite a Japanese style to the face.

The little “Moonbeam Fairies” should be costumed in similar style as to their garments, but of white or different light-colored material, the sleeves shorter and the sash smaller than in the ladies’ costumes, and white stockings drawn over their shoes.

Sakara’s costume should be of sombre hues, the face made up for a wrinkled old hag.

Lady Cecil is in well-fitting English travelling costume.

Miss Prendergast, the same, but in accordance with her sixty years. Hair, silver-white.