Nothing wrong with a white woman posing in a kimono. Whites were admiring the art of Japan, not disparaging Japanese art, much less disparaging Japanese-Americans. My parents and I wore kimonos all through my childhood that my family brought back from when we lived in Tokyo. I've often posted in threads here that the thread's issue is simply the Republican Outrage of the Day. It used to be only the Southerner (Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama) culture, but then the feminists took it up (always about semantics, some misused word, not any discriminatory act like blacks still experience like keeping blacks out of jobs or places of business or suburbs), which made the outrage culture a national one.