obi
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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
Inside, men’s corsetry, obi belts and cummerbunds cinch the waist, a silhouette that is mimicked in the dramatic hourglass tailoring of coats and jackets with curved waistlines and broad shoulders.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 14, 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
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 Brassey, Annie
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
