Last night we had Asian Occasion at my college. I was previously asked to be in the fashion show. Well, originally I was just going to Asian Occasion, then I was asked if I could help my friend get dressed, and then my friend asked if I would be in the show with her, because she didn't want to be in the fashion show alone. So I said I would help out... basically any excuse for me to wear kimono.
I decided to wear my new royal blue
tsukesage with aurora motif. I paired it with my silver saga
nishiki obi and matching silver saga
nishiki zouri. Ideally, I would have liked to have a white
obiage for this, but since I don't have one, I used my light blue
obiage - which looked
ok. I also was tossing the idea of either my light blue
obijime or my lavender
obijime when my mom was at my apartment. We both thought the blue blended into the obi too much, so we chose the purple one. Even though Asian Occasion, was pretty much
accross the street from my apartment building - it was
really cold out, so I decided to bundle up! I wore my navy blue
Ume haori, a ivory scarf, and on top of all of that, my
ame coat (it wasn't raining, but it acted as a windbreaker).
So, when my
freind Emma arrived to
AO, we
immeadiately went to the bathroom to get her dressed. She very nice red
furisode, with a black
tsukuri obi, and pink
obiage. It all looked very cute. I found out she actually learned how to wear kimono from her mom, who
aparently wears kimono almost everyday, which I thought was pretty cool. I think she was reasonably impressed with my
kitsuke abilities.
We made Andrew take pictures of both of us completely dressed. I think both our
kitsuke came out very nicely. Her
fukura suzume looks really good, and I jokingly asked her if her mom could make me a
tsukuri obi. On me, I really need to work on getting my collar back where it should be. Right now, I continually have my collar too close to my neck - which usually indicates someone more mature in age. My collar should be back where Emma's is... and I should be showing a lot more collar in the front as well. However, this was the first time I actually tied my obi correctly. Usually I just kind of fudge it, but this time I really tied it correctly - this is the first time. I was pretty impressed with my first true
otaiko musubi! I couldn't believe it wasn't a disaster.
Something that I was actually surprised to hear from Emma was her saying, "We should totally have a kimono party!" That made me insanely happy, especially since I want to wear mine more often.