I used to wear haori over tshirts and jeans during my college years. I bought a meisen haori in red, black, white and yellow geometric pattern from my Japanese language sensei's friend. I still have it but don't wear it anymore since it's really old, like from the 20s.
This fabric really seems to be a pain when sewing it 😅 but the outcome is fantastic! 🤩 Also the pattern seems to be mamageable 😊 I'm so glad that you make videos for wasai! It takes me the fear to simply try it and gives a simple point to start with a clear explains pattern and instructions. Thank you! 👏
Thank you for making the measurements clear. There are several ways to make the haori and this method works best for my fabric. I have collected many Japanese cottons that are showcased well by this garment.
Thank you so much! I have been meaning to make a haori with a cotton fabric made in Japan, and your pattern is easy to follow, so I will use it. Thank you!
i had been planning to make a kimono for a cosplay but wanted to research it as it looked difficult and the pattern i got was confusing. but than i found you! and you made it more comprehensible to understand. thank you so much for your instructional videos, it's really helped understand how the kimono works :3 and as for this video, the haori is sooo beautiful, im in awe of it :D awesome work!
If you're not a fan of the thick rolled hem, you could try either a thin rolled hem (fiddly with fabrics that you can't press or which are slippery), or you could use bias binding? Bias binding can be in either the same fabric or a contrasting one and could be mirrored on the sleeve holes for consistency! Also, a trick which I find useful for keeping paper patterns in place on difficult fabric is to attach it using double-sided sticky tape rather than pins! Hope this helps and thank you for the superb videos - I've wanted to make my own kimono/yukata and haori for a long time!
Intrigued by the concept of reversing colours and patterns between different seasons. I was under the impression that they stuck more with seasonal colours and patterns for the season they are in. Interesting. And good job with the sewing and video.
It's surprisingly common for summer items to contain snow flakes. The idea is that by looking at them, you will feel colder, because they will remind you of the coolness of spring.
This turned out so cute 😍 At first the pattern reminded me of Elsa from frozen, but when you put it on it didn’t look costumey at all! It looked legitimately wearable and cute
Im so happy you find the collar a wrench as well! It takes me as much time to attach the collar as it does to sew the whole garment and, like you, I have found it so much easier to just hand sew the whole thing! Amazing fabric by the way, in summer you will reming people of a glass of water taken from the freezer, crystallised and festooned with beads of condensation! Marvelous
I was looking for a haori pattern, thanks for the explanation! I'm learning kogin embroidery, and wanted to add it to my haori project. Do you know about or own pieces with kogin or sachiko embroidery? That would be so nice to see. Hope you and your loved ones are good and safe, take care✨
Watching for the second time and it is so beautiful. I agree with that fabric not working for a lot of garments but it is truly amazing how well it works here.
Ah, I just finished mine. I wanted a haori that could match my kimono but also something I could wear with western clothes to keep my skin from getting sunburnt. I was surprised how easy this pattern is! I actually decided to hand sew it and it only took me a couple of days. Hardest part is the collar
Thank you for sharing your tutorial!! 6 or 7 years ago I shibori-dyed a bolt of silk to make a haori for my fiber art final. Due to illness it didn't get sewn together, and is still in a bag waiting to be finished. Would you consider making a tutorial for a lined haori, or know of a resource for making one? Thank you again for this tutorial, and I hope that all is well with you!
I am making a bride's wedding garment. She wants a flowing A-line cream colored sundress with train but bought gold ornate organza for a removable cover like this that extends only to below the waist. The obi with huge rolls (not bow) will be attached to the sundress flowing down the back. This is an East meets West dress since she is Japanese from Hawaii but her mom and grandmother are from Japan. You have saved me by providing the sequence and sewing techniques to work with the organza. 🏝🌋🌊👍🥰🤗🥳🎎
interesting, I do something similar like the dress visually cool for summer/warm for winter. Summer has more blue and maritime or wind and sky patterns for me as well as muted paler shades while in winter I like richer more intense colors and for example greens and browns which are like the warmest end of color the spectrum for me
What exactly is a Yuki? I estimate it to be around 70 cm maybe, but I'm a little confused my that :) I love the video and I'm definitely gonna try it. Thank you 👍🏼
The yuki is the measurement from the center back of your neck to your wrist (with your arm held at a 45 degree angle away from your body)~ I hope that helps 😊
Video suggestion: The pinning underlay you have there! I am interested in making a similar one with materials I can find around me and atrtshops. Fabrics...Got plenty. Would you be able to make a short informative session about that piece? :-)
That is a beautiful haori 😍 I’m currently going through my fabric stash but I bet I have something. Regarding the hem, Organza are notorious for fraying so even if you overlock them it would be tricky ( also I think an overlooked finish looks less refined) but with lace you could try a faced hem? Maybe scalloped along the line of the pattern but it is much more work.
Thank you for the lovely tutorial! Do you know if Mami-san made her own haori too? The fabric is so unusual. I also didn't know that you were supposed to wear cool colours and patterns in summer. I need less colourful kimono, it means mine are all for winter 🙈
Of course that’s not the only way to style kimono in summer. Colorful is fine, too 👍🏻 Mami’s Haori is from Rumi Rock. it’s really hard to find that exact fabric, I guess 😪
My son has just finished reading young samurai and is wanting me to make him a kimono. I am using your men's kimono pattern for this. Would this Haori be acceptable with a men's kimono or would the collar change as it did with the kimono?
Wow such a cool video! すごい！ 👏🏻 And following ur tutorial I made a fishnet haori and now I'm makind a fishnet (in a different color) douchugi. Thanx! ありがとうございました先生。
I tore the sleeve connection line inside of my haori- and because the stitch work was invisible and INTERNAL- I’m trying to figure out how to fix it without dismantling it, and without the stitch work showing. I’m crying I love this thing so much.
Erst einmal, Danke für dieses sehr schön erklärte Anleitung! Die Schritte sind einfach verständlich und können auch ohne Schneiderrei Kenntnisse nachgemacht werden. Ich komme allerdings zu einem Ergebnis, welches ich nicht verstehe: Yuki ist 1/2 Schulterbreite + 1 Armlänge. Ich komme dabei auf 91,5cm. Wenn ich jetzt noch mal 2 * 1/2 Yuki für beide Ärmel dazu rechne bin ich bei einer fertigen Spannweite von 183cm! Ist das nicht zu viel? Ich habe etwas bedenken das dann die Hände verschwienden. Die Haori ist für einen Herren. Dazu möchte ich noch einen Kimono nähen. Die Maße sind ja die gleichen. Welchen Denkfehler begehe ich? Vielen Dank im Voraus!
Hi Billy, I discovered your channel during the last weekend and I watched a lot of your fantastic videos. I was wondering if a haori can be knitted. During the last months I knitted 2 haori (I didn't know the proper name at that time) and I'd like to have you opinion, I could send you the pictures: I don't know if they are more manga style or what else. Thank you for your great job and hope to get in contact with you. My name is Barbara and I'm from Italy. Thanks! 😊
How much of the 15cm strip that becomes the collar is sewing allowance and how much is visible on the outside of the finished garment? I want to use these instructions for a garment piece that has a contrasting colour collar, so I need to know what the width of the edge that is showing is. Also so I make sure I understand how the collar is attached at the nape, if the edge of the opening in the migoro extends 3.5cm past the centrefold into the back panel, and then the collar is off-set another 1cm from the center, and then with sewing allowance (let's say 1cm for simplicity) the apex of the collar in the center will be attached 5.5cm past the centrefold?
Is there a way to adjust this pattern for the winter? Or is the outer layer for winter different? Another question. Is it inappropriate or offensive to wear something like a haori with regular modern street wear? I live in the United States and I'm not ethnically Japanese. So, it would be typically awkward and inappropriate for me to wear a full kimono outside of the rare Japanese festival. So I'm thinking of making a haori to indulge in my love of Japanese culture and traditional Japanese fashion in an appropriate way. If haori cannot be worn this way, I'll likely make one, but save it for when I can go to a Japanese festival in a proper kimono. Thank you for your time and your videos! They've been teaching me a lot!
@@BillyMatsunaga Thanks. Could you give a list for mens clothes (or perhaps do a video) on kimono/traditional japanese clothing sewing books in english? While I'm waiting for the future men's clothing videos that you have hinted about ;)
Ahh my friend sent me your TH-cam channel because I have a few kimono that are just sat in a suitcase (folded correctly ofcourse). I think it's super 勿体無いright?! So I really wanna make one in to a 長羽織、I wonder if you can do that? Or you have a video for that too? 😍
Ahhhhhhhh! I am used to Chinese traditional clothing, where the symbolic significance of the center back seam is still prominent (even, I would say, overstated in the last decade's revival movement). So its removal makes me subliminally cringe! In the Chinese tradition, omitting that seam would be almost as bad as wrapping right over left is, in kimono. It's basically as if you are proclaiming that you are not righteous. Not saying you are doing anything wrong. Women's kimono have not been strongly influenced by China since the Tang/Nara period. And I don't think that aspect of Confucianism ever transferred over to Japan - although the seam itself survived.
@@YaoiHoshi I am not entirely certain, but the references to it talk about its importance in terms of linking heaven and earth. It is unfortunately not my area of expertise, so I can only go by other people's readings of the literature. I at first thought it might just be a modern truism, but I have seen people refer to actual texts where it was mentioned. I wish I could point you more directly. I believe I first learned it from Five Thousand Years (an English language channel), but she makes references to it over and over and only cites her source for it once or twice. That said, the idea of a straight line or 'uprightness' is very common across many languages. Hebrew has the verb root YŠR (just, straight, right, upright; of a path, straight or level). Sanskrit has Rñj-, meaning to make straight or right and related to words for rule (Rāja, but also Latin Rex, Regnum, Regulum, Rectus). The related verb in Latin maintains the sense of straitening. Even now, Regō is to govern, guide, or steer. But there is also the Sanskrit root Sādh, meaning to move straight toward a directed aim (used of arrows hitting targets but also of people attaining goals), to succeed, prosper, accomplish, advance. In its causative form, it becomes, to make straight, to guide straight or well to a goal, but also to master a discipline, to bring something to its intended end, to perfect it. A 'Sādhu' finally is a type of holy person. Originally, that is an adjective meaning efficient (going straight to its intended end); fit, proper, right; virtuous, righteous; correct, honest. Notice the words I am using are all related to that Rñj root, again. Correctus is from con+regō. It means to straighten, set right, to alter something for its improvement. English 'right' and 'righteous' trace back to Proto-Germanic *rehtaz, right and straight, or morally upright and just. So straightened, right, and upright are major conceptual players across the (unrelated) Indo-European and Semitic language families. Some have more to do with vertical straightness and some have more to do with leveling a horizontal path. And their opposites: to be crooked, abduction or seduction (literally, to lead away from a path or to lead astray), perversion (being entirely turned around). To not be 'straight' was to be somehow morally or metaphysically inferior (with all the negative ableism that implies. More recently, the Anglo-speaking world came up with the term 'straight' for those who were not 'depraved' (from Latin Pravus: crooked, deformed; wicked, perverse, wicked). So the metaphor goes both ways. Because of this kind of easy reckoning of straightness as correctness, it would not *surprise* me, given the reference to linking heaven and earth, if a similar style of metaphor were being used. Certainly, Chinese characters contain similar biases. 正 for example means straight, upright, central, proper, precise, exact, honest, and honorable. Its opposite, 歪, means not only slanted or askew (not-upright), but also wicked, perverse, improper, and evil. Again, I wish I could remember where more specifically to point you. But it wouldn't surprise me if the underlying logic isn't much more than 'straight vertical line equals good'.
@@YaoiHoshi Also, to be clear, the actual reason for *having* a seam there would have been the width of silk bolts. The symbolism would almost certainly have gotten attached to this, after.
@@habituscraeftig that was extremely informative and interesting to read! Thanks for taking the time to write all that. After this explanation it makes perfect sense how a straight seam might have come to be associated to virtue.
organza is hell to sew with and really unpleasent to wear. it can look great, it can look gorgeous especially for a special occasion garment, but it is so unpleasent to wear
Again lady you speak as if all of us are experts. What is the measurement of yuki? How to I know how much is that? I have this problem with all of your videos😢
Intrigued by the concept of reversing colours and patterns between different seasons. I was under the impression that they stuck more with seasonal colours and patterns for the season they are in. Interesting. And good job with the sewing and video.
There are waaay too many different concepts for kimono styling: you can wear color and motifs of the recent season, the next season or the opposite season. Better said: you can wear anything except the last season 😂
I used to wear haori over tshirts and jeans during my college years. I bought a meisen haori in red, black, white and yellow geometric pattern from my Japanese language sensei's friend. I still have it but don't wear it anymore since it's really old, like from the 20s.
If one wears it, would it look nice with a Jean skirt? ☺️ I wanna try wearing Haori myself
A Haori from the 20s? OMG
Yay, I just need to find the right fabric . 😃
祖母が大正生まれで、私が子供の頃はよく着物を縫ってくれた事を思い出しました。
ビリーさんの和裁技術、ひと針ひと針アイロンがけまで全て丁寧に魅入ってしまいました。
色柄美しい羽織りとっても素敵ですね。
毎回楽しみに拝見しております^_^
This fabric really seems to be a pain when sewing it 😅 but the outcome is fantastic! 🤩 Also the pattern seems to be mamageable 😊 I'm so glad that you make videos for wasai! It takes me the fear to simply try it and gives a simple point to start with a clear explains pattern and instructions. Thank you! 👏
Thank you for showing us the process of making Haori! It was really satisfying to watch you creating such beautiful piece!😊😍👘🌸
I just got done making this and it was my first sewing project, it was so simple to follow! I’m now addicted, thank you x
Thank you for making the measurements clear. There are several ways to make the haori and this method works best for my fabric. I have collected many Japanese cottons that are showcased well by this garment.
You’re a lifesaver. You have no
Idea how much you’ve help me make my daughter’s kimono and haori costume for her school play. Thanks so much 🙏🥰🙏
Yes. Nailed it. I have been pondering a LONGER haori, because I think they look so nice and flows so well. thank you for sharing this with us.
Thank you so much! I have been meaning to make a haori with a cotton fabric made in Japan, and your pattern is easy to follow, so I will use it. Thank you!
i had been planning to make a kimono for a cosplay but wanted to research it as it looked difficult and the pattern i got was confusing. but than i found you! and you made it more comprehensible to understand. thank you so much for your instructional videos, it's really helped understand how the kimono works :3 and as for this video, the haori is sooo beautiful, im in awe of it :D awesome work!
If you're not a fan of the thick rolled hem, you could try either a thin rolled hem (fiddly with fabrics that you can't press or which are slippery), or you could use bias binding? Bias binding can be in either the same fabric or a contrasting one and could be mirrored on the sleeve holes for consistency!
Also, a trick which I find useful for keeping paper patterns in place on difficult fabric is to attach it using double-sided sticky tape rather than pins! Hope this helps and thank you for the superb videos - I've wanted to make my own kimono/yukata and haori for a long time!
4:15 the construction
7:22 Sleves
9:15 the migoro
9:48 attaching sleves to the migoro
13:28 the collar
doing the lord's work
Intrigued by the concept of reversing colours and patterns between different seasons. I was under the impression that they stuck more with seasonal colours and patterns for the season they are in. Interesting. And good job with the sewing and video.
It's surprisingly common for summer items to contain snow flakes. The idea is that by looking at them, you will feel colder, because they will remind you of the coolness of spring.
This turned out so cute 😍
At first the pattern reminded me of Elsa from frozen, but when you put it on it didn’t look costumey at all! It looked legitimately wearable and cute
Im so happy you find the collar a wrench as well! It takes me as much time to attach the collar as it does to sew the whole garment and, like you, I have found it so much easier to just hand sew the whole thing!
Amazing fabric by the way, in summer you will reming people of a glass of water taken from the freezer, crystallised and festooned with beads of condensation! Marvelous
Perfect timing, I was planning to sew a haori :3 you are very patient and I love your haori, makes me wanna find a fabric as light as your
I learned so much in just the first few minutes!
I was looking for a haori pattern, thanks for the explanation!
I'm learning kogin embroidery, and wanted to add it to my haori project.
Do you know about or own pieces with kogin or sachiko embroidery? That would be so nice to see.
Hope you and your loved ones are good and safe, take care✨
You gave me courage. I am going to try to make mine. Thanks very much for the tutorial.
Watching for the second time and it is so beautiful. I agree with that fabric not working for a lot of garments but it is truly amazing how well it works here.
The fabric is *adorable*!
Ah, I just finished mine. I wanted a haori that could match my kimono but also something I could wear with western clothes to keep my skin from getting sunburnt.
I was surprised how easy this pattern is! I actually decided to hand sew it and it only took me a couple of days. Hardest part is the collar
The fabric is soooo dreamy!!!
For me was hard to make that haori with your video. But result is amazing! Thank you 😉
beautiful, cute, awesome
Thank you for sharing your tutorial!! 6 or 7 years ago I shibori-dyed a bolt of silk to make a haori for my fiber art final. Due to illness it didn't get sewn together, and is still in a bag waiting to be finished. Would you consider making a tutorial for a lined haori, or know of a resource for making one? Thank you again for this tutorial, and I hope that all is well with you!
It looks so good!
I am making a bride's wedding garment. She wants a flowing A-line cream colored sundress with train but bought gold ornate organza for a removable cover like this that extends only to below the waist. The obi with huge rolls (not bow) will be attached to the sundress flowing down the back. This is an East meets West dress since she is Japanese from Hawaii but her mom and grandmother are from Japan. You have saved me by providing the sequence and sewing techniques to work with the organza. 🏝🌋🌊👍🥰🤗🥳🎎
So pretty! Could you possibly do a video of how to make a Haori from a Kimono? Thank you so much for the great content!
interesting, I do something similar like the dress visually cool for summer/warm for winter. Summer has more blue and maritime or wind and sky patterns for me as well as muted paler shades while in winter I like richer more intense colors and for example greens and browns which are like the warmest end of color the spectrum for me
I bought those clips and they are amazing! So much better than pins!
What exactly is a Yuki? I estimate it to be around 70 cm maybe, but I'm a little confused my that :)
I love the video and I'm definitely gonna try it. Thank you 👍🏼
The yuki is the measurement from the center back of your neck to your wrist (with your arm held at a 45 degree angle away from your body)~ I hope that helps 😊
@@suitelifegirl777 thank you :) you're answer is perfectly helpful 👍🏼☺️
Video suggestion: The pinning underlay you have there! I am interested in making a similar one with materials I can find around me and atrtshops. Fabrics...Got plenty. Would you be able to make a short informative session about that piece? :-)
That is a beautiful haori 😍 I’m currently going through my fabric stash but I bet I have something.
Regarding the hem, Organza are notorious for fraying so even if you overlock them it would be tricky ( also I think an overlooked finish looks less refined) but with lace you could try a faced hem? Maybe scalloped along the line of the pattern but it is much more work.
Thank you for the lovely tutorial! Do you know if Mami-san made her own haori too? The fabric is so unusual.
I also didn't know that you were supposed to wear cool colours and patterns in summer. I need less colourful kimono, it means mine are all for winter 🙈
Of course that’s not the only way to style kimono in summer. Colorful is fine, too 👍🏻
Mami’s Haori is from Rumi Rock. it’s really hard to find that exact fabric, I guess 😪
Wait, how do you finish the bottom edge of the collar? Did you just let the raw edges hang free?
My son has just finished reading young samurai and is wanting me to make him a kimono. I am using your men's kimono pattern for this. Would this Haori be acceptable with a men's kimono or would the collar change as it did with the kimono?
Because of the different collar, for a men's haori you would only cut about 1cm into the back panel instead of 3.5cm.
Wow such a cool video! すごい！ 👏🏻 And following ur tutorial I made a fishnet haori and now I'm makind a fishnet (in a different color) douchugi. Thanx! ありがとうございました先生。
I wish i had that snowflake fabric here in the USA. T-T
Because it's just so beautiful looking!
😭
I tore the sleeve connection line inside of my haori- and because the stitch work was invisible and INTERNAL- I’m trying to figure out how to fix it without dismantling it, and without the stitch work showing. I’m crying I love this thing so much.
Hello Billy! Thank you for this amazing video! I was just wondering something: can i sew the inside ( for a cotton haori) with a serger? THanks again!
Thank you for the video! It’s easy to follow but i am wondering this haori is it also fit for men?
Is satin okay for doing haori? I need specific color for mine and I worried if it fits.
Erst einmal, Danke für dieses sehr schön erklärte Anleitung! Die Schritte sind einfach verständlich und können auch ohne Schneiderrei Kenntnisse nachgemacht werden.
Ich komme allerdings zu einem Ergebnis, welches ich nicht verstehe: Yuki ist 1/2 Schulterbreite + 1 Armlänge. Ich komme dabei auf 91,5cm. Wenn ich jetzt noch mal 2 * 1/2 Yuki für beide Ärmel dazu rechne bin ich bei einer fertigen Spannweite von 183cm! Ist das nicht zu viel? Ich habe etwas bedenken das dann die Hände verschwienden. Die Haori ist für einen Herren. Dazu möchte ich noch einen Kimono nähen. Die Maße sind ja die gleichen.
Welchen Denkfehler begehe ich?
Vielen Dank im Voraus!
Hi Billy, I discovered your channel during the last weekend and I watched a lot of your fantastic videos. I was wondering if a haori can be knitted. During the last months I knitted 2 haori (I didn't know the proper name at that time) and I'd like to have you opinion, I could send you the pictures: I don't know if they are more manga style or what else. Thank you for your great job and hope to get in contact with you. My name is Barbara and I'm from Italy. Thanks! 😊
How much of the 15cm strip that becomes the collar is sewing allowance and how much is visible on the outside of the finished garment? I want to use these instructions for a garment piece that has a contrasting colour collar, so I need to know what the width of the edge that is showing is.
Also so I make sure I understand how the collar is attached at the nape, if the edge of the opening in the migoro extends 3.5cm past the centrefold into the back panel, and then the collar is off-set another 1cm from the center, and then with sewing allowance (let's say 1cm for simplicity) the apex of the collar in the center will be attached 5.5cm past the centrefold?
Hello Billy. Thank you for all your videos. I'd like to sew a haori for my boy friend. I will use linen. Can I do it like yours ?
熊本は大雨と洪水で大変ですね！頑張ってくださいね。
Hi there. Would you post a tutorial how to make onsen yukata? Thanks.
what kind of fabric would you use for a winter haori?
Can you teach us how to sew samue and what fabric should we use? Thank you
Is there a way to adjust this pattern for the winter? Or is the outer layer for winter different? Another question. Is it inappropriate or offensive to wear something like a haori with regular modern street wear? I live in the United States and I'm not ethnically Japanese. So, it would be typically awkward and inappropriate for me to wear a full kimono outside of the rare Japanese festival. So I'm thinking of making a haori to indulge in my love of Japanese culture and traditional Japanese fashion in an appropriate way. If haori cannot be worn this way, I'll likely make one, but save it for when I can go to a Japanese festival in a proper kimono. Thank you for your time and your videos! They've been teaching me a lot!
Is there any pattern difference (aside form size) between a this and a Haori for men?
Cool tutorial.
Quick question, is the Haori for men follow the same pattern? :)
This kind of haori is non-traditional, so I would also say it can be unisex 😉
@@BillyMatsunaga
Thanks.
Could you give a list for mens clothes (or perhaps do a video) on kimono/traditional japanese clothing sewing books in english?
While I'm waiting for the future men's clothing videos that you have hinted about ;)
@@tonymeijer8532 th-cam.com/video/S6EJ-wh1gD8/w-d-xo.html
What kind of fabric do you use for winter haori?? I really want to make one...
…are your earrings watermelon slices?
Isn’t yuki the measurement from the center back seam to the end of the sleeve. So why did you say the migoro is as wide as the yuki?
Thank you for the lesson. But to be honest, because of the choice of fabric, it is not at all clear what is what🤔🧐
Ahh my friend sent me your TH-cam channel because I have a few kimono that are just sat in a suitcase (folded correctly ofcourse). I think it's super 勿体無いright?! So I really wanna make one in to a 長羽織、I wonder if you can do that? Or you have a video for that too? 😍
Thank you lots!!!!
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wait can someone tell me what yuki means? I just got into this and want to make a haori for my friend so I have no clue what that means. help
This video will help you to find out what it is and how to measure
th-cam.com/video/rW-Cz9HbkqA/w-d-xo.html
I really like to wear a howdy
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Is men’s haori constructed and measured the same?
This design is genderless. Just be sure to have no 4cm opening for the back neck. For men it’s only 1cm
I'm surprised there are no comments about nezuko
Are three yards enough?
First of all: that depends on the width of the fabric. And second: I’m so sorry, but I’m European and have no clue how much a years would be? 🙈🙈
@@BillyMatsunaga One yard is 3 feet, or just less than a meter (0.914m). So 3 yards is approx 2.75 meters.
Ahhhhhhhh! I am used to Chinese traditional clothing, where the symbolic significance of the center back seam is still prominent (even, I would say, overstated in the last decade's revival movement). So its removal makes me subliminally cringe! In the Chinese tradition, omitting that seam would be almost as bad as wrapping right over left is, in kimono. It's basically as if you are proclaiming that you are not righteous. Not saying you are doing anything wrong. Women's kimono have not been strongly influenced by China since the Tang/Nara period. And I don't think that aspect of Confucianism ever transferred over to Japan - although the seam itself survived.
Sounds so interesting, I had never heard of that! How did a seam become to be associated with virtuous behavior?
@@YaoiHoshi I am not entirely certain, but the references to it talk about its importance in terms of linking heaven and earth. It is unfortunately not my area of expertise, so I can only go by other people's readings of the literature. I at first thought it might just be a modern truism, but I have seen people refer to actual texts where it was mentioned. I wish I could point you more directly. I believe I first learned it from Five Thousand Years (an English language channel), but she makes references to it over and over and only cites her source for it once or twice.
That said, the idea of a straight line or 'uprightness' is very common across many languages. Hebrew has the verb root YŠR (just, straight, right, upright; of a path, straight or level). Sanskrit has Rñj-, meaning to make straight or right and related to words for rule (Rāja, but also Latin Rex, Regnum, Regulum, Rectus). The related verb in Latin maintains the sense of straitening. Even now, Regō is to govern, guide, or steer. But there is also the Sanskrit root Sādh, meaning to move straight toward a directed aim (used of arrows hitting targets but also of people attaining goals), to succeed, prosper, accomplish, advance. In its causative form, it becomes, to make straight, to guide straight or well to a goal, but also to master a discipline, to bring something to its intended end, to perfect it. A 'Sādhu' finally is a type of holy person. Originally, that is an adjective meaning efficient (going straight to its intended end); fit, proper, right; virtuous, righteous; correct, honest. Notice the words I am using are all related to that Rñj root, again. Correctus is from con+regō. It means to straighten, set right, to alter something for its improvement. English 'right' and 'righteous' trace back to Proto-Germanic *rehtaz, right and straight, or morally upright and just.
So straightened, right, and upright are major conceptual players across the (unrelated) Indo-European and Semitic language families. Some have more to do with vertical straightness and some have more to do with leveling a horizontal path. And their opposites: to be crooked, abduction or seduction (literally, to lead away from a path or to lead astray), perversion (being entirely turned around). To not be 'straight' was to be somehow morally or metaphysically inferior (with all the negative ableism that implies. More recently, the Anglo-speaking world came up with the term 'straight' for those who were not 'depraved' (from Latin Pravus: crooked, deformed; wicked, perverse, wicked). So the metaphor goes both ways.
Because of this kind of easy reckoning of straightness as correctness, it would not *surprise* me, given the reference to linking heaven and earth, if a similar style of metaphor were being used. Certainly, Chinese characters contain similar biases. 正 for example means straight, upright, central, proper, precise, exact, honest, and honorable. Its opposite, 歪, means not only slanted or askew (not-upright), but also wicked, perverse, improper, and evil.
Again, I wish I could remember where more specifically to point you. But it wouldn't surprise me if the underlying logic isn't much more than 'straight vertical line equals good'.
@@YaoiHoshi Also, to be clear, the actual reason for *having* a seam there would have been the width of silk bolts. The symbolism would almost certainly have gotten attached to this, after.
@@habituscraeftig that was extremely informative and interesting to read! Thanks for taking the time to write all that. After this explanation it makes perfect sense how a straight seam might have come to be associated to virtue.
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organza is hell to sew with and really unpleasent to wear. it can look great, it can look gorgeous especially for a special occasion garment, but it is so unpleasent to wear
Again lady you speak as if all of us are experts. What is the measurement of yuki? How to I know how much is that? I have this problem with all of your videos😢
Intrigued by the concept of reversing colours and patterns between different seasons. I was under the impression that they stuck more with seasonal colours and patterns for the season they are in. Interesting. And good job with the sewing and video.
There are waaay too many different concepts for kimono styling: you can wear color and motifs of the recent season, the next season or the opposite season. Better said: you can wear anything except the last season 😂
Because that's soooo last season :D