obi

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Think garden party for the daytime looks, with pretty embroidered shoes and hats complementing ensembles of unstructured jackets and textured trousers accented by obi belts.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 25, 2024

They value efficiency and aesthetics above all other considerations, and they end up a graveyard of lost opportunities: How will the jacket or the obi interact with the buckram?

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2023

“The present is a gift,” she said, fan tucked in her obi — the wide kimono sash — pink and white parasol in her Hello Kitty shoulder bag.

From Washington Post • Mar. 23, 2022

European designers have had a long affair with the kimono, the obi and platform sandal, and the chrysanthemum pinks.

From New York Times • Sep. 20, 2012

He led the way into his dim obi, which smelled of mushrooms.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie