http://store.sewingtoday.com/cgi-bin/butterick/shop.cgi?s.item.B6698=x&TI=10013&page=10 is the Mens kimono pattern shown there accurate, Im making it for...
Hi! I'm going to de-lurk for a moment. The butterrick kimono pattern is definately in the ballpark, but comparing it to a real kimono, there's really a...
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... http://store.sewingtoday.com/cgi-bin/butterick/shop.cgi?s.item.B6698==x&TI=013&page= ... accurate, Im making it for my ... Gracious lady, Before you...
... If you check out the Yahoogroups site for SCA-JML, there is a files section where there is information about Japanese garb. Also, check out the following...
So.. what would I do about pants? I cant afford much more, since I have to make his garb, some garb for myself (I have been using gold key for five freaking...
Pants are called 'hakama', and Hiraizumi-dono has a good pattern that is pretty easy and cheats by using the full width of the fabric. Check it out in the...
... Again, go to the links we've sent. I know that one of the links I sent has a pattern for the hakama(pants). To be honest, once you get past measuring the...
I'm trying to find more information on the fukusa used to wrap gifts. I know a noble Lady ( I think it was Hideyoshi's wife) gave one to Sen no Riku (1580's)...
Bun'ami sensei! Greetings from Solveig! You are getting two terms backwards. A "ruoshiki" (bath cloth) is often used to wrap stuff up. A "fukusa" is a piece of...
... I'd say since sometime in the Heian period. Dressing without some kind of pants was the height of "leisure wear" until either so late in period as to be...
Baron Edward! Greetings from Solveig! ... Let's see. Admittedly the Heian period say members of the kuge class of both genders tended to wear not one, but...
Noble Cousins! Greetings from Solveig! http://www.iz2.or.jp/english/fukusyoku/busou/2.htm http://www.iz2.or.jp/english/fukusyoku/busou/31.htm Your Humble...
I would say there are several issues with using monks when talking about pants: 1) Monks are supposed to have removed themselves from the world. In some ways,...
... True, if one take a look to late Edo Early Meiji period photographs, and illustrations of street sceens one can see a good number of men walking around...
Baron Edward! Greetings from Solveig! ... I looked at a bunch of those. Several of them, as I recall, depict what are actually traveling clothes. Traveling...
... I am so sorry I started this argument; I meant to help a new person to the SCA make her man look like he was a samurai, somehow kimono alone looks...
... I think you're conflating the issue of specialized uniforms (e.g., clerical "work clothes") with what the NORMAL person wore. Certainly historians of...
Noble Cousin! Greetings from Solveig! ... Bushi indeed frequently went about in hakama. I am sorry if I distressed you. I was simply responding to what I...
Baron Edward! Greetings from Solveig! ... As you well know, the Japanese love uniforms. So, uniforms were hardly unique to the clergy. At least one of the...
... Again.... If you want to take that view, fine. But clerical types do NOT count as typical people in terms of dress or style when they are in their outfits....
... Why did we stop wearing hats? Why did we stop "dressing up" to do anything? You didn't see people who weren't working the land wearing T-shirts in public...
... I'm not certain we can say why, for certain, other than that fashion changed. I would hazard a guess that walking around in simply a kosode was just a way...
Otagiri dono! Greetings from Solvieg! ... Why did ties become less popular in North America? Basically, there was a bit of a trend towards simplification in...
Baron Edward! Greetings from Solveig! June Cleaver wearing pearls while vacuming was a bit over the top even for the mid-50's. My mother wore a "house dress"...
