r/kimono

How do yall get your Furisode Kimono under kimono to stay in place? I swear it never stays

I have been wearing Kimono daily for about 2 years now and I've come to the conclusion that I enjoy wearing many women's kimono. I'm a rather tall person and the length on most women's kimono fit me perfectly. The only downside is the small sleeves. I was just curious about what others thought on my style.

Last night my twin sister and I went to our local Independence Day firework festival and I went with my firework yukata with a red heko obi! 🇺🇲 🎆🎇👘🎉

Honestly I was rushed to put on my yukata and tie my obi since our ride was waiting for awhile while I was getting ready, so my oshori isn't really straight as I wanted and my emon is a little short and my poor musubi isn't straight and I accidentally crused it in the car while getting in (I have back problems, so it can be challenging getting in and out in the car). But I managed it very well! And I was so comfortable walking around in it even though it was 95 degrees fahrenheit (35 degrees celsius) with hardly any sea breeze from the bay. I had such a wonderful time with my twin sister and I got a lot of compliments on my yukata! People here just call it a kimono, I just let them call it a kimono even though I did tell a couple of people that it's a cotton yulata which is apart of the kimono family... hopefully I gave them the right information without confusing them. 😊

Anyways. I made my red white and blue flower kazari himo and my 250 netsuke! surprisingly the netsuke stayed in my heko obi the whole time.

I did get asked if I was very hot in my yukata and surprisingly I was comfortable. I did sweat a lot because of the high humidity and my sunburn from earlier that day, but the heat wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. 😅

Despite being one of my fave yukata. This series is honestly a pain in the oshiri. I got it during a 1g 1yen and 1g 20yen promo 3 years back. This is actually a defunct brand and I finally understood why when I got quite a collection of it. All of them bled seriously. Especially all the different reds... Blues....purples, oranges. Their designs are really awesome though. I was almost tempted to buy the same design in different colours. The only way for them to stop colour transfers is to get a specific liquid. Can't remember what it was as the hubs got it for me.

Actually.... This yukata still has red dye transfers on the white lines.

I wore this coord for my lesson a few weeks back.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaSdnVVK3T8/

For anyone looking to get plus size yukata this summer.

After a year of this yukata sitting in my closet, I finally got around to lengthening the yuki enough for me to comfortably wear it (I don’t like short yuki even on Yukata.)

Also didn’t notice how crumpled my tiny ohashori was until after taking photos lol Yukata is hard to keep them from wrinkling and the ohashori from lifting.

Since it’s still technically hitoe season I paired it with grey haneri and tabi.

The obi is an antique - the width and length is a bit shorter than usual so it was interesting tying it. Had to redo it a few times to get it how I wanted it.

Anyone have advice on that chic 1930s otaiko? I should probably look it up on youtube, but I couldn't replicate it via photos. If I do make the right 'image,' I know it isn't tied correctly at all. Couldn't be. Move, and it would fall apart.

I know the makura was a much different shape so I'm going to have to make one. I'm thinking of a process akin to making a tailour's ham. But how to get those straight lines into such a rounded shape? And the proportions correct? I can see from the inspiration that the obi is wider than modern nagoya obi. To recreate it, I'd need at least 8" wide and to tie it much higher up on the body.

The original photo looked yellow-gold, but I've been buying kimono online for too long to expect that. It is actually a deadleaf yellow instead of ochre. Since the inspo nakagi looks orange, I went with peach to match the muted yellow-tan colour. I need to get a coveted red/white clouds obiage!

There are quite a few small stains or places where the dye has run, but I'm not too bothered. I'll have some flaws too if I get to the 90s.

The antique image is from 1932's "Wedding Ceremony Must Know", posted by Naomi no Kimono Asobi on flickr.

By @hanayagi for Naomi Osaka at Wimbledon Edit : I should have added that the designer makes dresses from repurposed wedding gowns and traditional ceremonial garments. I love that all of this was repurposed, zero waste aesthetic and debuted at Wimbledon ( worked in the fashion industry for decades )

I bought this kimono at Halloween sale in Arizona and I knew as soon as I held it It was more than a costume piece. It was legit whatever it was and I didn't know for sure and then as I looked it over a little more I was like "oh I know this is a vintage kimono of some sort." and started looking it over more. I knew it was something worthwhile so I kind of just put it in the cart and then did my normal things paid for the kimono and whatever else and then got home and I haven't really had time to take detailed pictures of it until just now.

I'd like to see what yall say because I ran it through Google and I don't know if Google's right more than 25% of the time. So any and all information on what this kimono is enlightening and any help on value/worth too would be much appreciated. I know the open underarm is for women and children? because they have to readjust their kimono pretty often. At least that's kind of what I remember... I have done a little bit of research. I just haven't had a lot of time to do so.

I'm more likely trying to sell it too. So if any of y'all are interested let me know and give me some time to figure what a fair deal would be. what it's worth. I'm just glad I saved it from the thrift store and the costume aisle

What can I say? I just really dig the Hige weaves. This IS, however, notably beardy-er than my Grey Hitoe Hige Kimono, and a little softer, too. Both are real silk (I don't buy/wear polyester), but the Haori feels more like it may have been woven of Habutae - anyone know if that's a Thing?

To paraphrase Edith from Despicable Me: It's so beardy that I'm gonna die! :D

Recently, I got to wear kimono and homemade hakama (i wear the hakama cause the kimono never fit correctly - i am very american woman sized) at a convention in Missoula Montana. I know my kitsuke isnt great, working on getting better at it!

I helped dress a lot of people in kimono garb as well it was so much fun!

This evening I decided to practice my kitsuke for an upcoming Independence Day festival on the 4th. Tonight I decided to put on my shell yukata and white heko obi from Kimonomachi. I absolutely love the yukata, however It's a bit big on me since it's a 3L. I'm in the weird "in between" sizes between a LL and a 3L, I'm also like that on my regular clothes. Im a Large, an XL and a 2XL... guess because it's my weird round shape. Lol! 🤷‍♀️

Meanwhile, I followed everyone's advice on here about putting on big kimono and yukata. I folded the ohashori where it's long enough for my index finger and I clipped the fabric on my elastic korin belt and hid the rest under my Obi-ta and heko obi. I use a type of korin where it wraps around you and clips the collars on the ends. It actually works wonders even though my ohashori did shift a little bit when I was walking on the sand, but not as much and nothing fell out of place. The one thing I wonder if that is it normal for the korin belt to stick out a little bit under the open arm pits? 🤔 I did notice but I tried to hide it with my obi.

Another question too is that is it normal for the top part of the yukata to feel loose? I guess because I'm not used to such loose clothing, but I'm just wonder because it might be too big especially on the sholders? I do want to point out that the sleeves are pretty long where they are just right above my wrist. Hopefully it's just normal and I'm not used it to.

Anyways, it was such a nice night and I did get a few looks from shoobies (tourist) when I was down there and the weather was pretty decent since it was a very hot earlier today.

I also wore my horseshoe crab pin on my pink obijime that was given to me by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service a few years ago when I reported a tagged horseshoe crab. It looked amazing with my beach themed yukata and I'm planning wearing more down at the bay! 🥰

I do want to thank everyone on helping me out on how to put on bigger kimono. 😁

I've finally worked up the courage to post photos of myself, but a few months ago I had a photographer friend offer to take shots of me with the DC cherry blossoms! I decided this would be a nice time to use my pink furisode and pair it with a new obi I had just gotten and I got so so many compliments and felt very pretty 🥹

Note: IM VERY AWARE MY OBI SANK DOWN 😭😭😭 I tried my very hardest to get it to stay up but it ended up sinking down and sitting over my waist instead of staying up against my ribcage and I'm very heartbroken over this 💔 pls don't mention it or I might cry (kidding! Maybe...)

I think the one at the waterfall and the candid photo at the train station ended up being one of my favorites (even though it was the end of the day and I was tired and my obi was at my freaking butt by then lol)

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/jun/29/naomi-osaka-wimbledon-day-one-crowd-kimono-inspired-outfit

According to the article the ensemble was created by Tokyo designer Hana Yagi and incorporates textiles from vintage kimonos -- including a shiromuku.

I can't seem to fix the blurry first image. Sorry.

don’t mind all of my kitsuke items on the floor in the back please lol

I was asked to do a kimono workshop for a women’s group last weekend. I was ambitious and thought I could do 2 stylings, but I only did one due to all of the questions I was asked. I wanted to show those who are reluctant to try kimono that there are different ways to work kimono into your life. This particular styling was something I thought of while listening to 80s music (Karyn White, Madonna). I was also thinking about my maiko kimono dressing class and put this together. It also happened to work really well with the model’s natural hairstyle.