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07-06-2008, 03:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Nagoyankee View Post
My opinion is that almost anyone looks good wearing yukata as long as they have selected the ones in good taste and they wear them properly.

The most common mistake that I've seen in the way non-Japanese wear yukata (or kimono) is where females wrap the left side of the yukata over the body and then overlap it with the right side. In Japan, that's how they dress corpses! So for both men and women, the proper order is first right side and then left side.
That's how they dress corpses? Is there any sort of significance as to why the yukata/kimono is wrapped in such a way?
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