Kino no Tabi:Volume17 Frontispiece

“Land of Fashion” —Fine Feathers Make Fine Birds.—

It was a country famous for clothes manufacturing.

In this country, various fabrics from cotton to silk are produced in large quantities.

The production of clothes from these fabrics is its largest industry. It is a place where designers and dressmakers get to show off their talents every day.

Traders come from far and wide to take a look at their excellent garments. They are valuable export goods that bring in enormous wealth to the country.

Models are needed to create the catalogue of clothes. And to advertise a huge quantity of clothes, many models are necessary.

And so, all the travelers that come to this country are asked to become models.

In exchange, they will be treated to the country’s most expensive and exquisite meals.

You might think no traveler would take this bait and become a model, but in fact, not a single traveler refused the offer.

Since none of them would stay long in the country anyway, they would have no way of knowing how the pictures turned out. And more importantly, there’s the great food.

As a result, the country’s fashion catalogue is filled with pictures of various travelers.

If you go to their ‘National Museum of Clothing’, you can browse through all the catalogues—even those over a hundred years old— that are being kept in custody there.

And if you look carefully, you might even be able to see some familiar faces.

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