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Season of Yukata

2018-06-17 by youseeaandiseeb No Comments

As the summer gets closer, the colors of clothes people wear are bright and colorful, so I like the atmosphere where the city is gorgeous.

And speaking of summer clothes in Japan is a Yukata. After the rainy season is over, when the fireworks festival and the Bon Dance festival season comes, we can see many women who wear Yukata. I think that the figure walking narrowly steps with bare feet to clogs is beautiful.

I think that there are many men who feel happy seeing such women but I would like to talk with a big voice. Men’s kimono and yukata are also very nice. Emphasis on glossiness, sexiness, masculinity, dramatic increase in masculinity! And I think it is comfortable to wear. Yukata is cooler than clothes.

I think that women think like men think about women in Kimonos and Yukata. Perhaps Kimono is a bit difficult, how about wearing it from a yukata for the first time? My recommended fashions for you are straw boater with Yukata.

Boater
A boater (also straw boater, basher, skimmer, cady, katie, canotier, somer, sennit hat, or in Japan, can-can hat, suruken) is a kind of summer hat worn by men, regarded as somewhat formal, and particularly popular in the late 19th century and early 20th century.
In Japan, from the end of the Meiji period, the trend began to popular among men, and when entering Taisho, the style of wearing a boater for western clothes and kimono prevailed, and the epidemic continued until the early Showa era. In those days, “The gentleman wearing a boater when going out” was common sense, so the adult male’s hat wearing rate was very high, especially the boater popularity was high. It seems that even in the workplace, it was accepted as a regular wear in the summer. (from Wikioedia)

Seems very nice period.

It may be a bit embarrassing if only wearing Yukata, it is worthwhile to wear a boater, shamefulness reduction, coolness of the western style mix, hot weather countermeasure and gentleman up as well as four benefits. How about that?

I wrote also in my past blog, Kimono also has a role to entertain the people who look at it. I hope that the gentleman who has such a stylish spirituality will increase in town and entertain my eyes.

Gentlemen of the Taisho Period (The left man wears Kimono and a boater)