I do not remember when I had this suit made. The tweed came from Semba in Osaka for that means before I came to Tokyo, and perhaps midway of my Sanda time, say, 2001.
The main show is the tweed---a warm tough soft vivid-in-color fabric remaindered in Semba. The gold is obi, kept non-symmetrical here at the mid and bottom level.
This is a close up, slightly, of the suit to make the pattern of the tweed easier to see and appreciate. Again my whole entry to fashion design was merely the single idea--WHAT IF clothes were made of non-shitty fabrics instead of junk from the world's poorest nations (for profit reasons). What if non-shitty fabrics were available to the masses (me)?
So I visited shops with ends of rolls at discount prices years after popularity. That way I kept running across lovely strong powerful things to wear. My design additions were, in the beginning, slight when not clearly misearble. Later I learned some things and got creative.
The back of the jacket is a bit of baby being born creativity--a nagare stripe but from an actual river not my own drawing. I traced this neck of the Upper Nile, I believe, from an issue of National Geographic. I liked the irregularity of the flow.
This shirt is SOFA material, as ALL my winter shirts are. I like it a lot---soft, warm, strong, gold, shining, but without the cheap metallic threads that make so many women's fabrics unwearable and, at close quarters, un-see-able.
Originally I had about 50 pairs of pants from Syms and 70 shirts made of curtain of sofa material. I dropped a few during house moves and now have about 50 of each. With trousers I have designed of black stretch with obi patches, and obi vests I made, this allows hundreds of combinations.
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