{"id":3257,"date":"2017-02-17T15:42:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T20:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/?p=3257"},"modified":"2018-11-25T13:20:45","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T18:20:45","slug":"one-kimono-four-ways-week-3-punchy-and-popping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/2017\/02\/one-kimono-four-ways-week-3-punchy-and-popping\/","title":{"rendered":"One Kimono, Four Ways – Week 3: Punchy and Popping"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the great things about iromuji is how they can allow you to really focus attention on something other than the kimono itself. They make a great neutral canvas for a really bright or busy obi. I decided for this week’s entry that I’d do a really high-contrast coordination with a lot of “punch” to it, and this obi was the perfect place to start. It’s a very special obi; I received it anonymously from some lovely person online. I suspect their intent was to have me coordinate it with my Shah Mosque houmongi<\/a>, but in the end the styles and colours were too different and I could never get them to work together. This kimono, however, is ideal. It’s a similar background colour to the houmongi and the orange-red of the obi really pops against it, but it doesn’t compete with the pattern on the obi itself. It’s a wonderfully neutral foil for the gorgeous obi, and the colours couldn’t work better together if they’d been made to go together. I’d initially thought of using a third bright colour (yellow or pink) for the obiage and obijime but then I remembered these pieces, and everything just clicked.<\/p>\n\n\t\t