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Condition:
Excellent - slight foxing marks on the lining. Foxing is a characteristic sometimes found on vintage silks, especially lightweight, pale lining silks. It is caused by age and storage in humid conditions, such as Japanese summers. It does not weaken the silk, it just creates little yellowish discolouration and, being on the lining, it won't show when on
Measurements:
Sleeve end to sleeve end 124 cm
Shoulder to shoulder seam (known as yuki) 58 cm
Length (known as mitake) 86 cm
- A black, silk haori, with a beautiful, glinting sweet pea flowers. Sparkling metallic silver urushi (lacquer covered silk thread), mauve and palest grey woven design
- Entirely hand tailored
- Made in and bought from Japan
- The Japanese take great pains to store their traditional garments with the utmost care, which is why they stay in such exceptional condition. Some of my Japanese garments have large, white stitching (shitsuke) round the edges. The Japanese put these stitches in to keep the edges flat during long periods of storage, these stitches just get pulled out before wearing the garment
Sweet Peas Haori
Japanese haori; a long kimono jacket, with swinging kimono sleeves. Traditionally worn loose over kimono and obi, fastened with a front tie (haori himo) on centre front edge, but also lovely worn with contemporary clothing, such as jeans, skirts and dresses, either worn loose or cinched in with a belt or sash. So beautifully made, with hidden raw edges, that they can even be worn inside out, with the often beautifully decorative upper lining on show.
Haori are loose, long, boxy jackets, and flexible in size. They also tend to vary very little in size from one to another. Many older ones are especially long and could even be worn as wrap dresses.
Much more haori infornation can be found in the Kimono Information section of the website (page 13, "Haori Kimono Jackets - Japan's Secret Treasure"). Worth a read prior to purchase.