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
“Kimberly adores her husband, and her husband adores himself. She should leave him but she never will,” she said once, about the woman she had worked for in America, the woman with obi ocha.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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
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 Finnemore, John
They were in holiday attire and the bright colors of the kimonos and obis made a bewildering and brilliant picture.
From The Motor Maids in Fair Japan by Stokes, Katherine
