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Japanese Wear Kimonos

japanese wear kimonos
Question: How often do Chinese/Japanese people wear kimonos in public?

I think there wicked awsome!

Answer: You meant to say Japanese Kimono's:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2282/1498031010_9a8721da1e.jpg

http://www.japanesekimono.com/images/kimono_furosode2.jpg

and Chinese Hanfu's:

http://bbs.chinadaily.com.cn/attachments/month_0609/02_0OBdyeiaDinu.gif

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2269/1668496741_5e8ef90393.jpg

Right?

It would be really odd to see people wearing these in public, as aesthetically pleasing as they are to the eyes... it's like seeing a cop on guard duty wearing plate armour. I personally love the guy versions very much too, and would love to wear them in public but I'd probably be mistaken for a schizophrenic.

There's a difference between these traditional dresses, although one can say the earliest kimonos were heavily influenced by traditional Han Chinese clothing, aka hanfu (漢服, kanfuku in Japanese). It was through Japanese embassies to China that resulted in extensive Chinese culture adoptions by Japan, as early as the fifth century CE. Chinese fashion only came into style among the Japanese around the 8th century. By then, I think the Japanese have already implemented their original designs into this particular fashion and created their own style of Kimono's different from Hanfu's.

Sukiyaki and Kimonos