{"id":11709,"date":"2020-12-13T15:30:10","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T20:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/?p=11709"},"modified":"2020-12-13T15:30:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-13T20:30:10","slug":"touches-of-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/touches-of-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Touches of Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"

(There’s some personal emotional garbage as well as an attempt at explaining the lack of content lately at the bottom of this entry. Feel free to skip it if you’re just here for the pretties.)<\/p>\n

My lovely friend Maral<\/a> was helping someone destash some kimono and I fell in love with this green odori piece as well as a gorgeous purple and white obi that will make an appearance sooner or later. Everything about this piece makes me happy; the colour, the bridge, the willow branches, and the size. It’s deceptively large!<\/p>\n

I decided I really wanted to play up the warm orange and touches of gold in the kimono. I used my black shishi obi to help anchor the coordination and bring in even more metallic accents, and the red obiage to tie in the red date-eri that was already sewn into the kimono. My initial instinct was a white and gold haneri but I defaulted to this yellow chirimen one that I use way too often, because somehow despite being the colour of stale mustard it seems to go with almost everything.<\/p>\n\n\t\t