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Post by Ishida Kentarou Mitsumasa on Jun 15, 2011 1:53:30 GMT -5
 Me in a sokutai by tomlapille, on Flickr At the Nishijin textile center in Kyoto, for Y10000 they are willing to put you into gender-appropriate Heian-era court clothing. It seemed kind of expensive, but I still ran it. This gave me an hour of Japanese women fussing about my clothing, and it also produced a number of amazing pictures. A flicker set containing them lives here: www.flickr.com/photos/tomlapille/sets/72157626965885308/ |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2011 6:17:42 GMT -5
At the Nishijin textile center in Kyoto, for Y10000 they are willing to put you into gender-appropriate Heian-era court clothing. It seemed kind of expensive, but I still ran it. This gave me an hour of Japanese women fussing about my clothing, and it also produced a number of amazing pictures. That is at least $125 worth of awesome. I'm also struck by how awesome life is with digital cameras. In the old days, they would have taken no pictures of the assembly process, and you would have gotten maybe two or three portraits once fully dressed, probably a few weeks later in the mail. Instead, you came home with a memory card full of all kinds of interesting shots. |
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Post by Saionji Shonagon on Jun 15, 2011 8:07:04 GMT -5
Ahem. Squee. Ahem.
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Post by AJBryant on Jun 15, 2011 12:40:06 GMT -5
Now I must hate you.
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Post by laurentk on Jun 15, 2011 13:28:27 GMT -5
Wow.
Just: wow.
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Post by pallidus on Jun 15, 2011 15:50:49 GMT -5
that is awesome!
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Post by Saionji Shonagon on Jun 15, 2011 17:24:42 GMT -5
Dressers. What luxury!
The first time I wore my karaginu mo, I enlisted a friend (who does not do The Japanese Thang but had at least seen pictures of what it was ostensibly supposed to look like). At Costume Con 26, I had a green room "den mother" and collared an internet acquaintance who has done modern kimono dressing to help arrange my collars and sleeves because the nearest mirror was a chair strewn ballroom away. Other than that, I've had to come up with a system for dressing myself. It mostly works, but it's not the same.
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Post by kazuyama on Jun 25, 2011 12:27:50 GMT -5
All I can say is just frickin' wow!
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