scarves? (also other winter gear)

Not if it fits you correctly and you've got it overlapped as high as it will go.
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With enough layers, even "kosode-cut" I've warm and comfortable in the Arizona desert at night in February.


Of possible interest, this was posted to a friend's journal recently and it explains how one actually catches a cold: www.drgreene.org/body.cfm?id=21&action=detail&ref=577

Absolutely! (Not to mention preventing sunburn on hot days either.)
Silk is also a wonderful insulator, particularly when worn in layers. ;D

That said, I am not above such things as wearing v-necked silk long underwear or fleece tabi socks if conditions warrant. If it's really THAT cold, protect yourself first, worry about authenticity second.

The tabi are another thing that isn't too warm. I suppose it helps a little to war kure tabi rather than ones made from fabric, but once it gets really cold that won't be enough.

I'm mostly just curious. Nowadays the winters are at their worst with 5-14 farenheit. Fleece tabi sounds very reasonable (reminds me of the local tradition of wool socks)

Layers of clothing, especially of silk, can keep the cold away, but what did they use as winter footgear? It's hard to imagine tabi stuffed with hay...
Also, a sleeve that doesn't reach the wrist is unpleasant in cold weather. I've gotten the picture that longer sleeves (like wider hakama) are a status symbol, but were they worn by all classes in winter?

It's been Photoshopped too...

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Well, I'm not sure that they go back to actual period, but there are heated foot warmers which can be used while in bed. The ones that I encountered were, as I recall, heated with charcoal.
This depends a bit on time. Late period, you get tatami covered floors. Tatami act as an insulator and what with clothing dangling far beyond the feet in the case of nagabakama and some kosode, you get quite a bit of insulation. Remember that your body is a 100W space heater.

I have a hard time from some of these questions about whether people are asking about inside or outside wear. People generally took shelter during inclement weather. Anyway, Japanese had straw snow boots and straw snow capes. They also had padded cloth back hand protectors.

The JPEG artifacts aren't really proof, particularly from pics pulled from the web that may have been resized multiple times. The lack of highlights could just be bad black clipping or color management in the original.

One of the easiest ways to detect compositing, particularly bad compositing like this, is to switch to the blue channel. In the blue channel there's a glowing white edge around the topknot that doesn't exist anywhere else on the picture. A really good digital artist can avoid/prevent this kind of evidence, but in this case it's conclusive.

Otherwise, I just might have thought that the topknot was a badly-matched extension.

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Not a very good photoshop job as you don't even have to blow up the image to see the artifacts. Regardless, the image itself is apropos of practically nothing. If I recall correctly, one of the hissatsu movies featured a cast with neon colored hair.