[ SECRET POST #2813 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2813 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Vocaloid]


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03.
[Homestuck]


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04.
[Luke Evans, Dracula Untold]


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05.
[Guardians of the Galaxy]


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06.
[John Green]


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07.
[Ace Attorney: The Adventures of Ryunosuke Naruhodou]


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08.
[Legend of Korra]


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09.
[Paul Hollywood of The Great British Bake-Off]















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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Kimono are designed to be 'too big' and purposefully made with too much material as they know they'll just tuck and fold them to the right length. Comes from when it was fashionable for upper class women to have long hems that fanned out on the floor behind them, which of course wasn't practical out of the home, so they had to tuck them to shorten them. That and it's a pride thing for kimono makers. You don't get tailor measured for kimono, they're all made from a single bolt of cloth.

[loracarol]

I didn't know that! I just remember what a pain it was to have to stand there as the teachers would keep messing with the kimono- it was like, "come on! Just tie the obi already, I want to go talk with my friends!" So that's cool to find out!

[(Anonymous)]

If you're interested, I recommend 'Kimono' and 'Geisha' by Liza Dalby. The first is purely about the history of kimono and how they evolved from 'fashion for layers stolen from the Chinese' to 'everyday wear for both sexes that changes with fashion' to 'ultimate Japaneseness clothing and limited to a particular type and style only worn for Japanese cultural things'. The second is about geisha (and Liza's time as an 'American Geisha' in the 70s), with a section on geisha and kimono (being the last real group to wear them as 'everyday clothes' and how their kimono differ to what most other women wear when they wear a kimono).

[loracarol]

Ooh, I'll look into those books if my library has them, thank you! :D