#vintage garments

Vintage garments by sororité 🦋

October's mood. I've been listening to many Louis Armstrong's halloween themed songs and I've made this girl wearing vintage halloween garments. My empire for those glasses... haha

An amazing mix of colors - teal green, shades of red, and cream - and a bamboo design created with the shibori technique, with shibori dots covering the rest of the jacket. Haori do not cross over or tie with a sash, like a kimono does - they are meant to be worn open to reveal a bit of what is worn beneath. Shibori is "Japanese tie-dye", where an artisan stitches along a stenciled image on the fabric, pulling the threads tightly to create a resist.  The fabric is then dyed and when the threads are released, the pattern is revealed.   There are dozens of shibori techniques, with the most common these days called kaneko (referring to the spots on a fawn), where an often elaborate pattern is created by hundreds of tiny dots.  Kyoto is famous for this kaneko style.  

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Ceremonial garment for a large to extra-large sized dictator.