The Japanese style of clothing has long become fashionable in Europe and the CIS. It is not surprising, because it combines conciseness, simplicity and at the same time - greatness and grace.
Style story
In ancient times, the mountainous territory of modern Japan was inhabited by barbarian peoples, whose culture, traditions and mentality were formed on the basis of the influence of Chinese culture. Their national clothes resembled a long spacious robe, which was the impetus for the appearance of a kimono.
Over time, the appearance of the kimono underwent certain transformations. The length and width of the sleeves, the length of the costume itself, the fabric, the fashion for colors and ornament changed. The traditional look in which kimono has survived to this day was finally formed at the beginning of the twentieth century. It was then that the integration of Western culture into Japanese culture intensified, which could not but influence the formation of more free social norms and fashion trends. Women got the opportunity to wear comfortable clothes that they would be satisfied with.
In the modern sense, everyday traditional Japanese women's clothing is a spacious blouse or dress with a V-neck and a wide belt or ribbon.
Traditional Japanese attire - kimono previously translated from Japanese meant clothes in general, however, for a person of Western culture, especially today, it causes associations with the national costume of the Land of the Rising Sun.
Features
The introduction of the Japanese style into the European one allowed creating a lot of new beautiful images in both female and male fashion.
One of its main characteristics is the simplicity of lines and the straight fit of clothes. The formation of the national Japanese style was determined by the influence of multiple factors, such as the cultural characteristics of the country, the aesthetic perception of the world, and historical events. For many centuries, the fashion for colors, the layers of the costume, the fashion for silhouettes changed, but the principle of cut remained the same.
Love for straight silhouettes is determined by the traditional norms of creating a direct and clear silhouette that allows you to align the bends of the body. By this, the Japanese seem to emphasize the peculiarities of their national mentality: for them simplicity and clarity in everything are important.
In addition, fashionable Japanese-style images are multi-layered. This is expressed either in the wearing of a kimono or a dress in the style of a kimono and a belt over, or an unusual and complex cut of clothes, which creates the illusion of this multi-layering.
Japanese-style clothing allows the addition of roundness with fitted styles, belts, creases on clothing and unusually stitched collars.
Since we are not talking about the traditional national costume of Japan, but about the Japanese style in general, we can say that he has already managed to undergo certain transformations and adapt to the fashion preferences of other countries.
In order to create a fashionable look in the Japanese style, it is not necessary to put on a heavy real kimono, the weight of which often reached 10-15 kg. It is enough to study the main features of this style and competently combine them with the European styles familiar to us.
The Japanese style of clothing includes clothes of wide and straight styles. For example, a loose-fitting skirt, a spacious blouse, a straight long or medium-length dress. It is assumed that mainly natural fabrics are used for sewing clothes - silk, linen or cotton. Now often add satin weaving to clothes.
Previously, clothing was made exclusively by hand. Nowadays, this task is completely dealt with using modern technologies. The main elements of the decor are plant prints, flowers, images of nature.
Often, outfits are complemented by an obi belt, or its modern likeness, which is tied on the back or under the chest in the form of a bow. By the way, chaste women in Japan tied this belt, I leave the bow just behind.
A combination of free, flying silhouettes and fitted ones is allowed to emphasize the merits of your figure and not to hide the thin waist.
Inadmissible in the Japanese style are body art, piercings, tattoos, since the main feature of the Japanese image, in particular the female one, is modesty, self-esteem and naturalness.
The main thing in creating your fashionable look in the Japanese style is harmony.
Colors
The Japanese attach a lot of importance to the feelings and emotional state, choosing a specific color for each of them. For this reason, unlike the European approach, it is important for them exactly what symbol lies behind a certain color, and not its brightness or saturation, visual color compatibility. To the extent that the shades of the same color in Japanese culture can have different meanings.
Today, the traditional colors for Japanese clothing are: black, white, pink, red, orange, pink, navy or indigo, partially green.
Accessories
A traditional addition to modern Japanese-style clothing is flat shoes, or, like Western fashion, platform shoes.
In Japan, it was customary to wear leather or wood sandals, and geta shoes, which were characterized by a high flat platform, were also popular.
Tabi - socks were put under them, in which the thumb was separate, for the convenience of wearing sandals. Of course, the socks should have been clean. In open shoes, they quickly got dirty.
Now flats or clogs with a flat sole that look like traditional geta are perfect for the look in the Japanese style.
When high hairstyles came into fashion in Japan, the girls began to decorate them with decorative combs and hairpins with butterflies and flowers.
This is permissible now provided that such jewelry fits both in the image and in the surroundings. For example, you should not wear a crest generously decorated with sakura flowers or a lot of butterfly stilettos for a formal event, if your dress is concise and restrained.
