Making a Haori for Summer 

If one wears it, would it look nice with a Jean skirt? ☺️ I wanna try wearing Haori myself

A Haori from the 20s? OMG

Thank you for showing us the process of making Haori! It was really satisfying to watch you creating such beautiful piece!😊😍👘🌸

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

Me too!

doing the lord's work

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 👍🏼☺️

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 😪

Because of the different collar, for a men's haori you would only cut about 1cm into the back panel instead of 3.5cm.

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 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-S6EJ-wh1gD8.html

This video will help you to find out what it is and how to measure ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rW-Cz9HbkqA.html

This design is genderless. Just be sure to have no 4cm opening for the back neck. For men it’s only 1cm

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.

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.

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.