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05-21-2011, 12:19 AM

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Originally Posted by MMM View Post

At the appropriate situations, I have never heard of hints or even rumors of Japanese thinking foreigners wearing Japanese traditional clothing as inappropriate or strange. If anything quite the opposite. I know people who would tell me exactly what thought about every other situation, so, again, I find this harder to believe with people over the age of 25 or so.
Japanese love it when foreigners wear traditional clothing, unless it is incorrectly worn. I saw them really get upset once when a young lady was wearing a kimono with the left side under the right signifying death.
Correctly worn the person will get sincere compliments.


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