By Rosanna Rios Perez An elegant national costume that defines Japanese culture, the kimono epitomises craftsmanship and ...

The other is a “homongi” formal kimono for women. Its obi is made using Kyoto-style “yuzen” dyeing techniques to incorporate the motifs of the White Base spacecraft and blue butterflies ...

As far back as 1966, All Japan Kimono Promoting Association designated 15 November as Kimono Day, a day when Japanese families with a 5-year-old boy or a girl aged 3 or 7 celebrate the Shichigosan ...

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Kojima also wears formal “haori” kimono at traditional restaurants used as party sites to celebrate a maiko’s promotion to geisha and the retirement of a performer. Although otokoshi are ...

The crane prints on her uchikake, her formal kimono, "were about freedom and her taking off." Notably, there were many layers to the costumes, which reflected what the women were going through at ...

You will never catch me wearing hard pants on a 14-hour flight to Australia, but I still want to look put together when I ...

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To write a formal letter to the Queen, the convention is to open with ‘Madam’ and close the letter with ‘I have the honour to be, Madam, Your Majesty’s humble and obedient servant’.

When we don't know people very well we need to use more formal language. Speaker 2: (TO OTHER PEOPLE) Helen Thompson? Doctor Campbell is still with another patient. She’ll be with you as soon as ...