Japanese Kimono

Posts Tagged ‘edo period kimono’

The Obi

Attention gradually shifted in the middle of the Edo period from the kimono to the obi. Although designers were still producing creative and beautiful kosode designs, they were also looking to the obi for new possibilities in kimono fashion, for there arose a class of people, townsmen for the most part, who were not fettered by the strict samurai codes of dress and who were attracted to whatever was new and experimental.

While samurai women continued to dress in simple and restrained kimono, women outside this class, influenced by the fashionleading actors and courtesans, wore furisode kimono with large obi tied loosely in the darari-musubi style.