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Yukata and heko obi are the bee’s knees. It’s both cute and fancy to use heko along hanhaba - just think about whether or not it will smother you (Japanese summer doesn’t go well with too many layers ;) ).
I personally really like the puffy cascading look below - which uses a veeeery long heko. Those type of heko are not always easy to find so pairing a shorter one with hanhaba obi is a good idea!
Obidome can totally be worn with yukata - even if most people would only wear netsuke as obijime are
usually
not part of those outfits. I’d go for summery ones, often made with materials which give a “cooling” effect like glass, pearls and resin:
As for your white obijime, it would be nice to have less
formal
one but don’t fret: as long as you can explain why you picked that one and not another (obijime can be so expensive!), no one will bite your head off ;)
It’s great if you can follow TPO rules, but very few people have an extensive gardrobe permitting this:
I have never seen info stressing which side goes up/down. But, you’ll see when you tie your obijime with the classic flat knot, there is always one side going naturally up and the other down ;)
Outfit palette is totally up to you! The general rule is: the louder the younger. But as for TPO, this is not truly followed to the letter anymore - especially for informal outfits.
To give you an idea, I am not that young, yet I feel more confortable wearing bold contrasting colors than soft and subdued shades.
In kitsuke, accessories like obijime are chosen to balance and/or bring focus to your outfit. If you feel white works well, just go for it!
When I lived in Japan, no Japanese people gave a fuck if white people wore a kimono. In fact, the family living above me bought me a yukata because it would ‘look cute on me.’ The only people who actually think that wearing a kimono is cultural appropriation is white people. Japanese people are very aware of their own culture, and don’t mind spreading it. It doesn’t jeopardize anything. Japanese people are VERY happy to share their culture, and living there for two years, I never saw anyone get offended over it. This is just Tumblr brainwashing.
Also, Iggy Azalea isn’t the first white person to rap, so I don’t even know where to start with that one.
Your mom has the right idea. She knew the world before it was so afraid to offend anyone. This whole idea of segregating cultures is shit, and she’s a smart lady to realize it.
I just watched it and I dont see whats wrong with it? It seemed to be encouraging men to be better and not put up with the way that certain men treat women
Well, firstly The Young Turks were in it. Secondly, it’s a company preaching political things AGAIN, and I’m tired man. They’re deleting dissenting comments. It’s a poorly put together advert anyway (like literally I’ve seen GCSE students make better and less jumbled things). They’re inserting #metoo into things, yet they’re belittling it down to creepy comments and children play fighting instead of… y'know, actual people getting raped, like jfc way to make it seem like something inconsequential, and way to gender something that isn’t fucking gendered. “It’s telling men to be nice to women.” yeah because they’re pandering to people who are gendering a problem to demonize a gender and frame benign shit as a precursor to rape. Imagine the backlash if they’d made this about women, like seriously, imagine an advert telling women to stop laughing at women who chop their husband’s dicks off, to stop thinking that women can’t rape, to stop enabling female teachers who rape students, to stop raping students, etc, etc. It’s demonizing men yet again just because a few people are assholes.
I could go on, but I’m literally not invested enough to care to break down the most recent advert in the slew of dumbass adverts. I just think that it’s a shit advert, preaching a shit message, to sell shit razors.
First of all I literally have no clue who the young turks are so that means nothing to me. Second of all, it *is* a gendered problem. Not because men are inherently more likely to be awful, but because we live in a misogynist society that teaches men that they have to treat women awfully in order to be respected, or even to be ‘real men’. Its important that we have messages that counteract that. And while I also dont like when companies get political (it is always very performative in my opinion) I think that the message of that commercial is an important one that needs to be put out there
We don’t live in a misogynist society, nor does said society teach what you’ve listed, if you want to see a society like that visit any Islamic Country.
The commercial has no real message to other than to overly exaggerate the stereotype of men it presents within the AD, then claim men as a whole need to better themselves.
Honestly maybe you need to take off the polical rose tinted glasses.
My favorite part was when the kids were play-wrestling and the one dad stopped grilling to pull them apart and say “that’s not how we treat eachother” when they were both laughing and having fun.
I just watched it and I dont see whats wrong with it? It seemed to be encouraging men to be better and not put up with the way that certain men treat women
Well, firstly The Young Turks were in it. Secondly, it’s a company preaching political things AGAIN, and I’m tired man. They’re deleting dissenting comments. It’s a poorly put together advert anyway (like literally I’ve seen GCSE students make better and less jumbled things). They’re inserting #metoo into things, yet they’re belittling it down to creepy comments and children play fighting instead of… y'know, actual people getting raped, like jfc way to make it seem like something inconsequential, and way to gender something that isn’t fucking gendered. “It’s telling men to be nice to women.” yeah because they’re pandering to people who are gendering a problem to demonize a gender and frame benign shit as a precursor to rape. Imagine the backlash if they’d made this about women, like seriously, imagine an advert telling women to stop laughing at women who chop their husband’s dicks off, to stop thinking that women can’t rape, to stop enabling female teachers who rape students, to stop raping students, etc, etc. It’s demonizing men yet again just because a few people are assholes.
I could go on, but I’m literally not invested enough to care to break down the most recent advert in the slew of dumbass adverts. I just think that it’s a shit advert, preaching a shit message, to sell shit razors.
First of all I literally have no clue who the young turks are so that means nothing to me. Second of all, it *is* a gendered problem. Not because men are inherently more likely to be awful, but because we live in a misogynist society that teaches men that they have to treat women awfully in order to be respected, or even to be ‘real men’. Its important that we have messages that counteract that. And while I also dont like when companies get political (it is always very performative in my opinion) I think that the message of that commercial is an important one that needs to be put out there
We don’t live in a misogynist society, nor does said society teach what you’ve listed, if you want to see a society like that visit any Islamic Country.
The commercial has no real message to other than to overly exaggerate the stereotype of men it presents within the AD, then claim men as a whole need to better themselves.
Honestly maybe you need to take off the polical rose tinted glasses.
My favorite part was when the kids were play-wrestling and the one dad stopped grilling to pull them apart and say “that’s not how we treat eachother” when they were both laughing and having fun.