Rebirth for two reasons; first of all, this stunning furisode features a motif of hōō, or phoenixes. Secondly, over the past couple of weeks I’ve had to rebuild the back end of this blog essentially from the ground up, so please be patient if things aren’t looking or working quite the way they used to. I’m still trying to find time to get everything back to normal.
If you spend any time in the tech spheres, you likely heard about the recent PHP vulnerability situation. Since all of WordPress runs on PHP some malicious actors took advantage of the exploit to seize control of a number of established tools and plugins, leading to someone using the back end of my blog to generate absolutely absurd amounts of traffic. This massively slowed down not only my own site, but other sites that I share hosting with. Thankfully the issues have been resolved, but I’m still fussing with things and using newer, safer plugins in a lot of instances.
It did seem like a good time to feature this absolutely breathtaking piece though. I styled it in a relatively standard modern furisode style, with lots of metallic gold and a fun take on a fukura suzume obi-musubi. This piece is also absolutely enormous, with the longest sleeves I have ever seen. I had to raise the mannequin by about eight inches because they were dragging on the floor. I might have to try wearing her myself once I get back to Montreal, because she is very much Giant Woman sized.
I still have an increasingly late Halloweek post to put up, a fun little book review, hopefully I can get that done this weekend!
Items used in this coordination
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- Gold Mixed Motifs
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- White sakura
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- White with Red Shibori
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- Red Furisode
Bebe Taian
CHOKO Blog
Silk & Bones
Gion Kobu