Japanese Kimono

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Question: gary kimmons car tag s.c.?

my granddaughter is 2 her name is emily my grandson is 4 his name is daniel their mother has violated pro. and took them and ran they have no clothes they are my life someone please help me find them her mother lives in charlston and she lives with gary kimonos help the babies
need to find gary kimonos tag for a vesicle in s.c. . he is harboring a fugitive from tn need to find he has a two yr old and a four yr old my grand babies

Answer: They may work slow to your desires, but the police
can usually track him down, and her, as long as
they have this information.

It is doubtful that you can find someone online that
would just so happen to have the information you
ask about. You could find it faster if you can find
someone that you know in S.C. that would help.
You might also find something on him, and where
he may be living by going to your public library to
search city directories for Charlston, and the
surrounding suburbs. Check a couple of years
worth. You might also check phone directories
as well. You might get a surprise and find more
that enough to give to the police in Tn. They
would have the appropriate police in S. C. go out
to find them with the info you provide.

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Question: Japanese clothing layer order?

I was just wondering, how many robes do you wear when wearing a formal kimono? Two or three? Also, I was wondering if there was a website that I could purchase a "winter" kimono from....any answers may help. Thanks. ^^

Answer: For a modern kimono, you have at most three real layers, but you can fake the look of even more layers easily. Let's use a furisode as an example, since that's pretty much the most over-the-top and formal you can get without getting into wedding kimono or other specialty clothes.

To wear a furisode properly, you'll have three layers. The first layer is a kimono slip, which basically looks like a short-sleeved wrap-around dress. Then entire purpose of this is to help keep your sweat away from the other layers, and it might also add a bit of warmth in cold weather. It's not meant to be seen and if you can see it when you're dressed you've done something wrong. These slips are usually one-piece slips, but I've also seen (and own) two-piece slips. The next layer is your juban, which can also be one or two pieces. This layer will be seen, at least at the sleeves, so it's very important to pick a juban that compliments your outfit. Pink is a very common and very safe choice for pretty much any outfit. You will also be able to see the juban collar, since the way a kimono is closed, the juban collar sits higher on your chest and closer to your neck. A juban typically has a plain white collar, which is fine to wear by itself, but it's not unusual for people to add a han-eri over the juban collar. Han-eri can be plain white like the juban collar, or they might be colored and/or embroidered. The final true layer is the kimono itself. If you want to fake the look of one or more additional layers, you would add kasane eri or date eri (same thing, just a different name) to the kimono collar. I've seen people do it with less formal kimono, and then they only use one or two, but I have pictures of women in furisode with three, four, or even more date eri.

This basic three-layer system holds true for ALL kinds of kimono and ALL levels of formality except for yukata (you don't wear a juban with yukata) and wedding ensembles (you add an uchikake on top of everything, thus giving a fourth layer).

Any kimono that is lined and has an appropriate pattern can be worn in the winter. Kimono that aren't lined are usually for late spring through early fall, while lined kimono are for the rest of the year. Generally speaking kimono (especially lined ones) are multi-seasonal, but every now and again you run across one that's heavily tilted towards one or two seasons, like my camellia blossom furisode (pretty much 100% winter). The Immortal Geisha forums have a pretty good list of seasonal motifs floating around somewhere, and there's also a site called something like 500 essential Japanese season words that might help you figure out what kinds of patterns make a kimono a winter kimono.

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