ISOTK Round 2 9th Stops: Yafra, Surabaya

The traveling kimono set its next destination to Surabaya, Jawa Timur. Surabaya is the capital city of Jawa Timur and considered as the second biggest city after Jakarta. I want to inform you that ISOTK Round 1 was also happened to feature Surabaya. It was presented by Aulia. You can check Aulia from Round 1's kitsuke in here (blog) and here (Facebook).

Now I want to accompany you to check another part of Surabaya with Yafra, our Round 2's participant, in this time Monkasel (Monumen Kapal Selam), House of Surabaya and Yafra's little fun trip to a bunkasai in UNAIR. Yafra was rocking in her hanhaba and nagoya obi. She decided to have THREE different set of ensembles. Check the pictures below.

Also, kindly check for another ensembles at our Facebook page Indonesian Sisterhood of Traveling Kimono.

DIY: How to Make Kantan Eri with Chikara Nuno

This picture isn't mine. I have it in my hard drive and it will be wasteful if I don't share with other. In case the weather isn't suitable for wearing juban or you want to have a quick kitsuke or have a mass kitsuke, we can wear a kantan eri with chikara nuno. You can decorate the collar part with your favourite fabric of choice.

DIY: How to Make Your Own Obidome

This isn't my picture, but kimonolady's. If any of you want me to put down the post, I will gladly accept. I post this because I admire her work and it is an inspiration. I put the picture in my hard drive

and I think it will be a backup if my hard drive is fail one day - I dunno. I already did the tutorial and it is actually a great tutorial. The only downfall is that the brooch can loose easily - the obijime makes the obidome undone easily even though I wore the flat and thin obijime. I think I need to make the obidome with locking pin.

Anmitsu Hime Part 1 of 4

I got this movie reccomendation from certain kimono enthusiast group. This movie starred Inoue Maou as Princess Anmitsu, who are in her teenage years. This movie is really jolly, colourful and heart-warming. It has a lot of traditional and modern components and their combinations are somewhat fun and entertaining to watch. For example, all the blings, glitters and colourful ensemble of her kimono oddly matched with the era in the set. She also got her nails decorated, her practicing lance pinked and heyy she wore a funky wheely shoes inside her house which resulting her getting scolded XD.

The story was light and fun to watch if we're looking for family and comedy drama. Since the story took place in the rugou jidai (old era), we could expect to find many kimono ensembles. The common people's kimonos might be plain but the kimono of Anmitsu's mother and grandmother were great. The servants' kimono had tateya musubi, this kind of musubi was worn as a protection addition as the servants sometimes protected her master. The musubi had a shape in such a way so that the servants could hide a small or slim knife - just for defense.

Anmitsu wore komon for her day adventure and she wore her furisode and uchikake in her day in the castle. And her protectors, oh wow, you get to watch it yourself. I meant it with the WOW. I will put others picture of her wearing kimono and also the setting in the movie itself.

Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4

Tsukesage: Light Pink and Sky Blue

This two tsukesage were my purchases a long time ago. Right until this time I haven't worn them with any ensemble but the tsukesage has been worn by my customer - the Dai 10 Nihongo no Hi's committee. They are light pink and sky blue, but the more I see the kimono, the more I feel that this tsukesage tachi aren't my taste. I'm thinking about konmari'ed it.