by parhessiastes At the start of last term, Mr M got kimonos and happy jackets for us to wear in class. There were adult and children kimonos. There were also some colourful happy jackets. Some of the happy jackets had waves or the map of Japan on the back of them. The kimonos were pink, blue or white with a lucky cat pattern on it. The kimonos came in all different colours, sizes and patterns.
The original meaning for kimono was ‘clothing.’ Now it refers to a piece of traditional clothing. Kimonos were designed to be suitable to wear in all weather. They could also be worn in layers to keep people warm in winter. They were made of linen for the summer. People started to combine different colours in to the design of the kimonos to represent the different seasons of the year. During the Kamakura period (1192- 1338) and the Muromachi period (1338-1573) men and woman started wearing brightly coloured kimonos. Warriors wore the colours of their leaders and sometimes the battlefield was as colourful as a fashion show!
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It was really cool wearing all of the colourful Japanese kimonos and happy jackets because we have never worn one before and to see what the Japanese people would wear. Mr M you should have really taken pictures of us in them!
At the very beginning of last term we were wearing the kimonos. We got to choose which kimonom we wanted to wear.We went round a group at a time.
these were cool to wear in class
I am SO sorry I never took any pictures. I take hundreds of pictures of everything else but for some unknown reason I didn't take any of the kimonos. Sorry...
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