CHRISTMAS 25dec14Thr Richard's Wear

Well here is my global warming genre, suit.  It is just a suit without sleeves, and with a nice asymmetry to keep the Louis XIV crap out of my life.   The suit is a gorgeous blue kimono silk.  The shirt also is a vivid, shall we say, orange kimono.   

 The back of the suit is simple with just a side obi patch of random shape.   Just enough to remind viewers that the suit is not factory-made.  I cannot describe really how comfortable to wear these sleeveless kimono-material suits are but Japan makes the strongest silks in Asia, very different than Chinese and Thai silks and with 20 aesthetic principles not found outside Japan.   There is a subtle patterning in the blue of the kimono material of this suit that I did not bother doing a close up to show.  It makes the blue a sort of tiled stone floor pattern.   

 This is my usual winter jacket, short sleeves for comfort of motion and reducing obi wear, very warm, and somewhat lively in coloring.  I hated it originally, thought it a big mistake, but now after wearing it this winter, am becoming fond of it.  There is simply nothing like it currently worn anywhere in Tokyo, or in Manhattan, etc.  You can find vivid stuff but not beautiful vivid stuff for the most part.   

This photo is about the shirt.  It is a rather cheaply made kimono but with strong silk and very warm and comfortable to wear.  The sheen of the way it reflects light combined with its vivid colors and rather random wavey pattern crashes appeal to me.   It has that "Japanese cowboy" look I apparently aim for at times.  The blue pants have that random shape obi patch on blue kimono rock tile pattern kimono material.   I find this outfit really comfortable and the center of attention everywhere I go.   We were are the Royal Park Hotel in Minatomirai Yokohama today and on the club floor all the rich-y people parading there, were out-shone if not out-classed when I strode into each room.   By the way club floors should NEVER serve Lipton teas---or egg powder-derived eggs in the morning.  Any TRUE club floor has an omlet chef there each morning.   The Japanese do not understand luxury!!!