そろそろ年末です。
日本では、年末に大掃除をします。
It’s close to the end of the year.
In Japan, we do this thorough cleaning at the end of the year
to welcome a new year.
大掃除をするときには、このままでは動きにくい上、汚れてしまいます。
With kimono, it makes difficult to move and
moreover, easy to get dirty.
そこで、長い袖は「たすき」で邪魔にならないようにして、前掛けをつけます。
さあ、お掃除です!
Therefore, we tuck up kimono sleeves with tasuki (fabric cords)
so that they don’t bother your move
and wear an apron.
Now, let’s start cleaning!
とんびコートは、着物の上に着るためのコートです。
I made tonbi coat for 1/6 size doll.
Tonbi coat is similar to the Inverness coat
putting on over kimono.
着物の袖が邪魔にならないように、ケープの下は袖がない作りになっています。
As you can see, it doesn’t have sleeves under the cape
it is because there are full kimono sleeves.
The back of the cape is a part of back body: it is one piece.
Come to think of it, I realized this tonbi coat is
much similar to the Inverness cape: the cape split in two and a small cape on
each side was sewn into the side seams
not taken across the back(*), but not exactly same.
*source from wikipedia: Inverness cape
仕立て屋フンボルトさん、今年最後のお仕立て上がり浴衣です。
紺地に流水とうさぎの模様、帯は麻の葉です。
帯に挟んであるのは、煙草入れです。
Tailor the Humboldt’s last works of yukata for this summer.
Kimono is flowing water stream and bunny pattern in solid navy
and obi is a geometric hemp-leaf pattern.
A small bag hanging from obi is a cigarette case.
こちらは、籠目模様の地に丸。帯は縞です。
煙草入れは、上の紺の浴衣地の色違いの生地で仕立てました。
This kimono has circle print on hexagram pattern.
Obi is a striped pattern.
Cigarette case is made out of the same print fabric but in different color
as the kimono in the top picture.
「良い絣じゃの」
フンボルトさんは洋服も仕立てられますが、和服の仕立てもできるのです。
“This is a good fabric with splashed patterns”.
Mr. Humboldt can tailor western clothes but he also can
tailor Japanese traditional clothes like kimono and yukata.
「もう夏じゃから、ひとつケン氏に浴衣を仕立てるかのう」
“Let me tailor a yukata for Ken since summer is just around the corner.”
奥は、花魁の下駄です。鼻緒は羽二重です。手前左は「舟形」と呼ばれる形の台の下駄です。
From the left: Funagata: base board shaped like a boat;
top middle: oiran’s sanmai-ba geta. Hanao (cloth thongs are made out
of habutae silk); and on the right koppori: special
type of geta worn by maiko (geisha apprentice).
こっぽり下駄をmomokoさんに履かせてみました。
Momoko wears koppori: Koppori are distinctive tall geta
which have a small bell inside of its thick sole.