{"id":3045,"date":"2016-08-25T14:33:42","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T18:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/?p=3045"},"modified":"2018-11-25T14:52:42","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T19:52:42","slug":"back-school-meiji-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/2016\/08\/back-school-meiji-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to School, Meiji-Style!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have always loved the look of the traditional Meiji\/Taisho era schoolgirl outfits<\/a>; the youthfulness of the hakama, the timeless\u00a0feel of the yagasuri kimono, the modern and almost masculine touches of little leather ankle boots. When I splurged on this teal hakama a few months back, I’d imagined pairing it with my red and white yagasuri komon. What I hadn’t thought of was including this vintage taffeta haori I love to death, but as soon as I saw the three pieces sitting together in a pile I knew I’d found the perfect finishing touch to this outfit and with lots of schools starting this week, it seemed like an ideal time to pull it all together.<\/p>\n

I knew I wanted to use a black obi to help anchor everything, but I don’t actually own a black hanhaba obi. Thankfully, because I was just dressing the mannequin, I could fudge things a little. I used the waist part of a two-piece tsuke-obi and a big obi-makura in the back to give the hakama something to anchor to. The plum motif of the haneri might not be totally seasonally appropriate for a “back to school” outfit, but the colours felt so right I had to run with it.<\/p>\n\n\t\t