Thank you so much for tuning in! 🌻 I really appreciate you taking the time to post a comment. I read every single one of them, and I enjoy hearing about your experiences with kimono and upcycling.

I know I broke quite a few traditional kitsuke rules in this one, but I believe it's about having fun and experimenting. Well, at least for what I do with kimono, anyway. There's enough stressful stuff in our lives and there's no need to stress over yet another thing, right? 😊 Even though I had some struggles in the midst of this kitsuke session, I'm glad I took the time to play with these beautiful garments.

One thing I keep forgetting to mention in my videos is footwear. Like other measurements, I have larger feet than traditional Japanese sizes. I have found some "large" zori while visiting Japan, but they are still too small for me. So, I like to wear sandals, boots, and other footwear I normally have around. What's been your experience with kimono footwear? I should dig into this more and see if there are places I can get larger zori and geta within my budget.

What do you think about my next project idea? Spoiler alert! It's going to be kind of a doozy... 😵‍💫

Share with us what you're working on these days. If you wear kimono, what's been your go-to obi musubi during the summer heat? What about going into the cooler weather?

As a non Japanese, I find adhering to the tradtional kitsuke so intimidating, in addition to not fitting my body type (I cannot maintain that sleek head to toe profile when I've got such boobage 🙃and restrainng them to fit, ugh) that I just don't. Yet, I adore kimono. Kimono kitsuke, with obi, and all the trimmings, is such a glorious art form, but I feel by trying to wear it I disrespect the lines and how it is meant to flow. This is largely why I use the silk, but rarely the kimono as a whole.

I watch several young Japanese kimono YTers who bring kitsuke into a lively modern look, with boots, lacy almost Elizabethan collar haneri, band t-shirts as OBI, leather corsets instead of obi, and long sleeves (in lace, leather, with feathers around their wrists even), among other fun choices. A reclamation for a new generation of an antique art, bringing whimsy and shock and completely stepping outside tradition to make kimono accessible to a generation who has lost interest and experience. I love to see the creative way they continue the kimono tradition by breaking the rules. Clearly they love kimono and want them to continue to have a life.

To be honest, I tend to dislike meisen. I enjoy some of it when it is geometric and abstract, and admire the incredible dying and weaving skill that produces meisen, but it does something to my eyes when it is floral or a smaller print. I feel as if my eyes are unable to focus properly when the edges of the print are so indefinite. From a distance, I can enjoy it, but as I approach, I find the sensation unpleasant. My brain and eyes try so hard to SEE but I can't get it into focus. That's a me-thing.

I do enjoy that burgundy & blue meisen kimono, the indefinite lines with the individual threads as a visible & deliberate part of the geometric print, work for me. And your Star Trek top would be gorgeous with a skirt or something to match. Perhaps a sleeveless shift would work under it, since the top is so see-thru but with such a similar print dynamic, to see it peaking through?

Thank you for another fun video.

BTW, even a lot of younger Youtubers doing more traditional kitsuke create their own haneri in a way similar to what you did. I really enjoy it. I believe they mostly use cotton, because of the washability of it. Haneri are the most stained parts of most of the used kimonos I have. But use what you have and what speaks to you. Regardless of your choices, and the occasional worry that you are transgressing, you always end up looking gorgeous and put together.

Excellent✨️👏!!

Hi madly kimono San!
お着物姿とっても素敵です❤❤
凄くお似合いでした〜😍😍😍
お太鼓、綺麗に出来ていたと思いますよ〜😊後ろで結べるなんて凄い!!!
早く着物が着られる気候になってほしいですね〜👘アリゾナはまだまだ浴衣です😂

Really enjoying your channel which I discovered today and immediately subscribed.  Would you be so kind and tell me which model of Husqvarna sewing machine you use ? Greetings and best wishes for your future projects from Berlin .

Madlyさん、こんにちは。
半衿と帯の色合いが合っていて、とても素敵です😻
Madlyさんは身長が高いですか？
帯の柄は正面でも横にずらしても好みで大丈夫だと思います。私は正面でチャンピオンベルトみたいになるのが嫌なので、柄によって少しズラすことが多いです😂
すごく綺麗に着付けされていて着慣れている感じと着物が大好きだというのが伝わって来ました✨本当にでたらめ着付けだったら、もっとグシャグシャに着崩れると思います💦
少しお着物をお休みしていましたが、Madlyさんに触発されて、また着物生活👘に戻りたいと思います。

Do you wash all your kimono and Obi?

Where is your unboxing video??

Do you live in Japan?