{"id":6334,"date":"2017-11-03T11:39:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T15:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/?p=6334"},"modified":"2018-11-24T13:47:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T18:47:58","slug":"fudangi-first-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/fudangi-first-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Fudangi First Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello! Welcome to Fudangi First Friday<\/strong>, a sort of new feature here on Kimono Tsuki. Naomi<\/a> and Lyuba of Immortal Geisha were inspired by the recent Fudangi Fun<\/em> event in NYC they were lucky enough to attend, to create a day where kimono-lovers can focus on relaxed, wearable, casual outfits. We all love the vibrant formality of furisode or the subdued elegance of kurotomesode, but it seems like fudangi, which includes things like wool and cotton kimono, simple komon, and other informal relaxed pieces, often get overlooked. So they decided to create Fudangi Fridays to encourage all us kimono lovers to appreciate these everyday pieces.<\/p>\n

However, I know that committing to do something every single Friday is just a recipe for disaster, especially with the holidays coming up. For those of you who don’t know, I work in a specialty collectible toy store, so this time of year tends to be incredibly busy for me. So I’ve decided to combine Fudangi Friday with a phenomenon known as First Friday<\/a>, an art\/networking\/entertainment community event that happens in a lot of big cities in North America on the first Friday of every month. People gather to share ideas, show off creative endeavours, etc. Forcing myself to do this once a month without fail is definitely more achievable for me. I may even manage to dress myself for these on occasion, since the majority of my wider kimono are casual pieces.<\/p>\n\n\t\t