obi
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Through the centuries, the unisex garment evolved from an underlayer for the upper class to become outerwear, sashed with an obi but featuring smaller sleeves that aided physical activity — helpful for the samurai warriors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2024
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
“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
It’s basically an informal, cotton kimono — it has a sash, not an obi — and I have several.
From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2018
Once she saw my father use the obi, the divining coconut, to answer the questions of a godchild who had come to consult him.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
Checked shirts tied at the waist, while the bands of knitwear that encircled the torso flirted with the notion of modern- day obis.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2010
Arriving in Washington with a gift-load of cloisonne vases, obis and brocades, his comely daughter Hanako at his side, Mamoru Shigemitsu posed for photographers, leaning heavily on his cane.
From Time Magazine Archive
The latter supposedly smuggled Chosen's cash in Japan out of the country, wrapped in obis.
From Time Magazine Archive
They also wore gay Page 335embroidered obis, or large sashes, which are put on in a peculiar fashion.
From A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months by Annie Brassey
But fine kimonos and rich obis are for the wealthy Japanese; the poor cannot afford them, and dress very simply.
From Peeps at Many Lands: Japan by John Finnemore
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