Possible Clues:

• Dressing gown
• King put on one black and white Eastern garment
• One half-day in knockout dress!
• Korean leader on to Opposition leader for attire
• In work, I'm on overtime producing garment
• A book Kipling wrote on love — it's popular in Japan
• Kipling's boy has on old garment
• 'Madama Butterfly' dress
• Traditional Japanese robe with wide sleeves
• Way of working in ink transformed old robe