Quote:
Originally Posted by RealJames
I have a student who makes a point of wearing her Kimono every weekend in the winter and Yukatta every weekend in the summer, since it's like 35c here O.o
|
That's pretty interesting; is she Japanese or a foreigner?
On the note about it looking habitual, I ended up chatting once to this old lady selling stuff just down the road from Kiyomizu-dera in Kyoto. She was watching me maiko-spotting (there were lots about that day, some kind of event) and came up to see what I made of it all. She pointed out that a few of them were just women in costume, not real maiko and pointed out a few key difference, mainly, how they walked in their geta. Boy, was she ever right! You could really, really tell who was used to it and who wasn't.