What is Tsukesage kimono?
Tsukesage (付け下げ) Tsukesage, which is written as ‘付け下げ’ or ‘付下げ’ (pronunciation is the same), is kimono for Japanese women. Such kimonos used the technique were called tsukesage. Basically current tsukesage is not supposed to be a formal dress because of the lack of eba-moyo and kamon.
What is Houmongi kimono?
Houmongi is a formal/high class kimono. It can be worn at wedding ceremony, wedding party, prestigious party, visiting somebody’s house, the occasion of a family celebration etc. Nice and gorgeous for married / unmarried women. Usually they tie FUKURO obi on HOUMONGI.
When to wear Houmongi?
We can wear houmongi at new year’s day, tea ceremony, party, entrance and graduation ceremony. We can wear houmongi as formal attire if it has family crests and if it hasn’t one, we can wear as semi-formal.
What is the difference between Furisode and kimono?
A furisode has long, hanging sleeves, while kimonos with shorter sleeves are called tomesode. However, the furisode is now thought of as a feminine garment. While furisode kimonos are worn by young women at special events, a tomesode is usually a formal dress for a married woman.
What is the male version of a kimono?
For formal occasions, men wear a montsuki, which is a formal black silk kimono worn over a white under-kimono and hakama, traditional Japanese trousers.
What’s the difference between a houmongi and a tsukesage?
Houmongi are considered to be more formal than Tsukesage. The background can be any color (including black and white), and the design is dyed in such a way that it extends smoothly across the seams when the kimono is sewn together, creating an unbroken design. It is traditionally considered a ‘visiting kimono’.
What kind of kimono do Japanese women wear?
Tsukesage, which is written as ‘付け下げ’ or ‘付下げ’ (pronunciation is the same), is kimono for Japanese women. Tsukesage has characteristics that it doesn’t have eba-moyo (or ‘eba’) nor kamon (crest), and its hakkake (inside cloth used around cuff and hem) is not tomosuso (made of the same plain cloth as the front).
Can a married woman wear a homongi kimono?
Despite the shorter sleeves which generally identify a married woman in higher categories of kimono, homongi–like tsukesage and the more casual komon–can be worn by unmarried women. In the past, for the type of event that homongi frequented, most single women would wear a furisode.
What do you call an open weave kimono?
The term ro denotes an open weave worn only at the height of summer, and can be used for juban (undergarments) and obi, as well as kimono. In the height of summer kimono are worn unlined, and the sense of air travelling through the open weave is considered cooling both for the wearer and the onlooker.