How to Wear Kimono - Step 6

STEP 6: Wearing OBI Sash


Finally, you are going to wear Obi sash.



Tie the obi sash on your back. Bind the obi string of the obi holder.




Wind the narrower Obi end one and half times around your waist.




Clip the narrower end to the front temporarily.





Form the Obi back.

Place the temporarily clipped end into the formed Obi back.

Put the obi belt into the Obi.

Bind the Obi scarf and put them into the Obi.

How to Wear Kimono - Step 5

STEP 5: Wearing OBI sash

In this lesson, I introduce how to wear Nagoya-obi style, a daily use style.



This is called Nagoya obi, which indicates a type of shape and length, in stead of a type of textile.


Obi Holder




Hold the wider end of a Obi sash two times. Its width has to be the same as the Obi holder width.



Place the Obi holder one knuckle away from the end of the holded end.

Cover the bump of the obi holder with Obi scarf.

Cover the Obi holder and the obi scarf with the holded Obi end.

How to Wear Kimono - Step 4

STEP3: Kimono

Wear Obi foundations.

A Date sash belt


Pinch both ends of the lower color.


Release any twinkles around the sash.

Obi Sash board

Wear the above Obi sash board.

How to Wear Kimono - Step 3

STEP 3: Kimono

Finally, you are going to wear Kimono.

Now, you are going to wear Kimono (finally !)


A rubber belt


Wear a rubber belt.

Release any wrinkles around the belt.

How to Wear Kimono - Step 2

Next, you wear Juban underwear. Whether your final style can be beautiful or not depends on how you wear this Juban underwear without wrinkling. You make every efforts to remove wrinkles and create good space between the neckline and the collar.



In order to make the neckline sharply, insert collar stay into the color. Handstick the edge of the collar so that it can be inserted smoothly.

Remember your waist belt you placed when you wear the Hadagi underwear. That belt has two clips with velcro strap edges. Clip the edge of the collar with those clips.

Remember your waist belt you placed when you wear the Hadagi underwear. That belt has two clips with velcro strap edges. Clip the edge of the collar with those clips.

Hand stitch 10 cm-long elastic cord at the position which starts at 7-8 cm from the collar.

Then, place another waist band. Insert this edge into the above elastic cord as well.

Grab the middle of the Juban underwear just below the waist belt as circled in the right image to remove the wrinkles on the back and to create good room between the neckline and the collar, which is supposed to be a sexy point.

Next, you wear Juban underwear. Whether your final style can be beautiful or not depends on how you wear this Juban underwear without wrinkling. You make every efforts to remove wrinkles and create good space between the neckline and the collar.

How to wear Kimono - Step 1

STEP 1: Underwear

In order to wear Kimono beautifully, the body has to be I shape rather than S shape. Big breast, slim waist, and big hip are not ideal in this case. If you happen to be such a lucky woman, you have to use pads, belts and towels and make the breast, the waist, and the hip to be the same height. Ideal fashion for middle-aged women, isn’t it?


Wear a hip belt, a waist pad and a waist belt to make the body straight.

Hip Belt

HIP BELT: with TowelFold a towel into triangle and Place it on the hip belt.If you are a fat women with big hip, this correction is not necessarily.

WAIST BELT: Cover upper part of your waist.

How to Wear Kimono - intro

I took a-year-long lessons (but once a month!) about the way of wearing Kimono. Average Japanese women grew up without learning how to wear Kimono. Our grand-mother-generations wear Kimono daily, but after WWII things have been changed. Now, most women wear Kimono only in special occasions such as coming-of-age day, wedding party, or Shichigo-san (talk later).