Japanese kimono
The kimono is a traditional Japanese garment and the nation's attire. Its name is derived from the verb "to wear (on the shoulders)" (kiru) and the noun "thing" (mono). Unless the wearer is dead, the kimono is a wrapped-front garment with square sleeves and a rectangle torso that is worn with the left side wrapped over the right. The obi, a wide belt usually worn with the kimono, is frequently paired with footwear like zri sandals and tabi socks.
Although Western-style fabric bolts are occasionally used, kimono are primarily constructed from a long, narrow bolt of fabric known as a tanmono and have a specific assembly procedure. [3] For men, women, and children, there are several kimonos available, depending on the event, the season, the wearer's age, and - less frequently in recent times - the wearer's marital status. Despite the kimono's reputation as a formal and challenging garment to wear, there are varieties appropriate for formal and informal settings. Putting on a kimono is referred to as kitsuke (, lit. "dressing") in Japan.
The most casual style of kimono, the yukata, is still worn by many people today at summer festivals, but more formal styles are also worn to funerals, weddings, graduations, and other formal occasions. In addition to rikishi, or sumo wrestlers, who are obligated to wear kimonos at all times in public, other persons who frequently don them include geisha and maiko, who must do so as part of their line of work.
The kimono has undergone a series of revivals in prior decades and is still used as fashionable attire inside Japan today, despite the tiny number of individuals who regularly wear them and the garment's reputation as a complex article of clothing.
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