{"id":1950,"date":"2015-01-13T16:11:44","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T21:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/?p=1950"},"modified":"2018-11-27T20:26:42","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T01:26:42","slug":"par-for-the-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/2015\/01\/par-for-the-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Par For the Course"},"content":{"rendered":"

As you may have noticed, it’s become a bit of a thing<\/em> for me to dress house-guests in kimono. Several months ago, my dear friend Dino of Alternative Vegan<\/a> came to stay with me. Our friend Frances came by as well, and I had the pleasure of subjecting them both to the blissful discomfort of kitsuke \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

I had fun playing with gender conventions\u00a0here. Dino has a very fabulous and flamboyant personal style, so I put him in a woman’s kimono and obi but dressed in a manly style, similar to my own experiments in otoko-poi<\/a> style years ago. You’ll notice that he’s wearing the same Victorian Gothic London houmongi that Elise wore when she visited<\/a>. This tends to be a popular one with guests; I suppose the motif is both quirky and familiar, which makes it accessible to people who aren’t really used to kimono yet.<\/p>\n\n\t\t