But the garment whose fate makes Indians clutch their brocade scarfs in terror is the kimono.
Soy-bean, sushi, tofu, kimono, futon, bonsai, karate, jiu-jitsu, honcho and sayonara come from the Japanese.
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Ad agencies have always lifted up every inch of the kimono, providing multiple examples of spec work.
Everybody dressed in cotton yukatas, a kind of kimono, and went to see the fireworks and dancing.
When you arrive, a gracious hostess in kimono escorts you to your room for a cup a tea.
Entering the 14, 800-square-foot hall, visitors are met by kimono-wearing guides, who politely ask visitors to remove their shoes.
They did the kimono-robe-wearing and sumo-wrestler-costumed party-goers the immense favor of obscuring their faces in the photos.
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Japanese women too are experimenting with different lengths and sleeve styles to give the kimono a more contemporary look.
Standing next to him was Empress Michiko, wearing a black kimono, the most formal attire for the Japanese people.
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Thing is, this season is sure to be a hit there as well even without searing-red silks and kimono-like blouses.
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When the weather cools and Romy outgrows it as a sleep-sack, the bottom can be opened, transforming it into a kimono-style coat.
No doubt Japanese girls go through their own acculturation in the kimono.
However, except for the fact that both the sari and the kimono inhabit countries east of the prime meridian, they have little in common.
If a kimono is like a cloak that swaddles a woman, a sari is like a veil that hides or flaunts what a woman chooses.
In search of an umbrella, she ducked into a kimono shop and in a corner she discovered some beautiful earrings crafted from kimono silk scraps.
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No biotech executive wants to be the first to make a CRL public, and certainly no executive wants to be the only one to lift this particular kimono.
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In its gloomy darkness, the kimono-clad owner sits sternly by the charcoal brazier, warming sake, rarely speaking and deciding what he will allow his literary customers to eat.
She herself found the kimono more comfortable than western clothes.
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The kimono is a structured, multi-layered garment with many parts, all of which are meticulously tailored in advance before they are finally assembled on the woman with ties and sashes.
Another older Shinjuku gem is Jazz Pub Michaux, a bar whose white-bearded, kimono-and-Mongolian-cap-wearing 76-year-old owner has 4, 500 records of hard-bop and soul-jazz, including a large collection of rare vinyl by artists like Baby Face Willette and Groove Holmes.
Drawn primarily from the Alexander McQueen Archive in London, with some pieces from the Givenchy Archive in Paris as well as private collections, signature designs including the bumster trouser, the kimono jacket, and the Origami frock coat will be on view.
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More worldly friends will stop off here for dinner in cool Mimasu-ya, reserving tables overlooking the water, or in the sublime French kaiseki restaurant, Misoguigawa, where a girl in kimono sits by your table throughout the meal, making delectable small talk in impeccable English.
It was this broad avenue, hung with bobbing white lanterns, alight with girls fluent in yukata (a light kimono) and little boys carrying lit-up white globes, that greeted me my first night in Kyoto, in 1984, on a three-day visit through Japan with my mother, en route to India.
In the inn setting, you can consider yourself respectably attired for such a dignified supper if you dress in the cotton kimono provided in your room (bonus: you are dressed in what is essentially a bathrobe and can loosen the sash if you find that the meal was five courses longer than you expected).
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