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  • snowyfoxsnowyfox@deadinsi.de
    Aug 28, 2026, 10:02 AM

    Yeah, it's not really challenging or time-consuming to wear a kimono if you're carefree about the neatness...

    You only need one belt for every item of wafuku. So if you see a vintage kimono for cheap and don't want it to be abandoned, you can make use of it with one cloth belt and then a suitably encompassing set of inner clothing (as undeerwear to protect the kimono from body sweat). Or if you have a nagajyuban then it's one more belt for that.

    Once you have the kimono, you can just set up the skirt and do a hip tie and you're done. The skirt is rigid and you can let the top just be loose, as though you're a samurai. Or use a clip to clip the two halves together as a collar.

    Wearing guides tell you to aim your skirt in a careful way, that is under the assumption you don't have a mirror to notice the two halves of your skirt are misaligned. If you have a mirror just look at it and adjust as needed.

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  • snowyfoxsnowyfox@deadinsi.de
    Aug 28, 2026, 10:03 AM

    Like seriously, I don't care what all the beautiful pristine aunties in Japan say. If a vintage kimono ends up in your country's marketplace - that is landfill-bound, someone in Japan discarded all of their parents' belongings. No one else is going to buy it. Just rescue it. It'll feel less insulted being worn lazily in your hands than not at all

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  • snowyfoxsnowyfox@deadinsi.de
    Aug 28, 2026, 10:06 AM

    In Malaysia we have so much of it from the imported Japan "bundles" that some clothes shopkeepers have resorted to dismantling them into cloth squares and sewing them as T-shirt pockets and T-shirt rears.

    None of these are the basic generic ones by the way, they're cutting the ones with interesting patterns that would've been great in its original state as a kimono.

    It's like the old world is just burning away - all the kimono norms of what level of pattern intricacy for what social occasion, all forgotten and ignored, into "oooh fancy. Cloth! Cut." Which.. yeah, someone dared to throw this into the trash. The old generations' treasure

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  • Sarcastic stochastic carrot.rightsprung@c.im
    Aug 28, 2026, 10:46 AM

    @snowyfox

    This is heartbreaking. It feels the same reading about the old books being destroyed for AI. We are not very good caretakers of history.

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  • Dagnabbit, Pascaline ! 💥pascaline@mastodon.nl
    Aug 28, 2026, 10:51 AM

    @rightsprung @snowyfox

    Same, it is heartbreaking, someone used to touch the fabric, take good care of it, maybe sat in a chair at sunset, watching the intricate patterns change under the dying light, someone turned delicate pages, discovering worlds at each turn, and felt connected with real feelings. It's all so sad.

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  • Janne Morenjannem@fosstodon.org
    Aug 28, 2026, 10:59 AM

    @pascaline @rightsprung @snowyfox
    To be fair, kimono used to be daily wear. Beautiful perhaps, but not luxurious. People sometimes inherit chests full of old kimono, most of which were not ceremonial or special.

    It's like inheriting a dresser full of your grandfathers old suits. Perhaps good quality, and fascinating old fashion. But in the end very few would want to wear those old outdated suits.

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