#usumono

[bebetaian]

Private Collection: Taisho Preview

A gorgeous summer kimono. I don't have any antique summer juban, though. You can see here how real silk kimono then would stand away from the body, but modern poly juban don't.

[love1kimono]

Usumono Kimono 1870s

Geiko (geisha) Yumekichi wearing a usumono (gauze) kimono, associated with the months of July and August, when the weather is notoriously humid in Japan. She is holding a Western style parasol and a mushi-kago (insect cage), which helps to create a sense of the coming autumn.

[rinrumika]

[kimono-daisuki]

Kimono meet up today! We tried to do a spring themed meet (hence the Sakura obidome), but it was too hot, so we just went with whatever was comfortable. I am now reminded of my hate for polyester ro 😅 My obiage seems to have disappeared in all photos but it matches my obijime. The plastic flowers are very confused (looks like wisteria but wrong shade and wisteria does not grow on trees), but they make for a nice cheerful background for photos!

[ralsart]

saya-igarashi replied to your post...

Hello! Beautifully written guide, but I feel there should be some talk of yukata as well? Many people often confuse them with kimono, and they are apparently not quite the same but similar, and worn for different reasons? (Yukata are more casual, I recall, and often worn in the summer.)

Hi! As we said in our original guide post is that ‘kimono’ is a general term!! Yukatas are a type of kimono! You are definitely right though, that they have their own occasions to be worn just like any other type, and are indeed often worn in the summer as the temperatures are high and yukatas are very light.

The major differences between yukatas and other types/styles of kimono is that they are the most informal type, are made of cotton with no lining, and you typically don’t wear juban (under garments) and/or the tabi socks! There are actually also other summer kimonos out there besides yukata!

This link here is actually a great overview source, just scroll down to the yukata section and you can read more about it! @yuyue-yue can also add to this i believe!

Anyways, sorry for not elaborating more on the different types of kimonos! As said we wanted to try to keep it as simple and basic as possible both because we wanted to get certain points across in an easy to understand way, and also because getting into detail about one type made it difficult not to get into detail about another and we would’ve ended up going into so much more detail on each type than we had time to draw and share with others XD !

There are definitely a lot more than we listed/showed an example of, and there is definitely a lot more details to learn! I will also admit i should have also stated these were all female styled kimonos (i made the decision not to go over the males because majority i usually see wearing kimono are female characters and also that i takes alot of time to simplify everything!) so sorry about that!

Anyways thank you so much! I’m glad our post provided to so many!

[wisteriagardens]

I've decided to go with a little experiment and make some flowers with ro silk. This is a special type of silk, airy and meant for summer which makes it quite tricky to work with, but the results are very nice I think

[kimono-daisuki]

Snapshots of antique summer kimono