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Post by Hida Tetsuko on Aug 21, 2017 21:55:46 GMT 10
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Post by M'thack-kir on Aug 22, 2017 8:29:18 GMT 10
This is legitimately one of the things I'm most excited about heading back to Japan for (at this stage Easter/sakura season/my birthday next year~): searching for more kimono, haori, fabric, etc., especially this place in Kyoto I didn't know about til after I went this year that releases modern kimono fashion each year...
*drools at the thought*
Also, partly irrelevant, but I have an impossible dream of cosplaying a gender bent Shiba Tsukimi someday~
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Post by Hida Tetsuko on Aug 22, 2017 10:06:50 GMT 10
From what I have heard they sell fabric differently in Japan. They sell it in lengths to make a kimono or yukata.
After the Regency ball I have enough time and money for things like this.
I've never worked with silk, I'm too nervous to do it yet. Though the fabric above isn't cheap, it's $25 a metre, but high quality cotton.
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Post by M'thack-kir on Aug 22, 2017 10:29:46 GMT 10
Indeed they do :3
I'd be getting a bit ahead of myself, trying to make a silk kimono from scratch with my little skill. I have a length I bought at a fabric store in Kyoto near Kiyomizudera that I intend to turn into a pouch for my goshuincho very soon, so that's first on my list (along with using my sewing machine to embroider the obi for my gender bent Yuna (FFX) cosplay...
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Post by Hida Tetsuko on Aug 22, 2017 10:42:19 GMT 10
If you're nervous about it, make it from cheap fabric first. Some of my friends are professional dressmakers and they make a calico copy first so they can get it right.
That being said, Japanese patterns are very basic geometry. All straight lines and no contouring to the body shape.
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Post by Hida Tetsuko on Aug 22, 2017 14:48:02 GMT 10
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Post by Hida Tetsuko on Aug 22, 2017 14:54:07 GMT 10
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