2015 in Review

2015 has been quite a year for me kitsuke wise. This is the first year I truly dedicated myself to kimono and kitsuke. I made the resolution in January to wear kimono once a month every month and I have succeeded! In this year my kitsuke improved greatly as did my collection, I made some great kimono friends and gained more confidence going out in kimono. 

In this post I want to go back and look at a few of my favourite ensembles (in no particular order) as well as go into my kimono resolutions for next year! 

I'll start with this one since it's a pre-blog kitsuke. Using my purple iromuji and adorable pink floral haori (can't wait til it's in season again!). 

 

From the Harajuku fashion walk downtown. I really loved this ensemble and all the accessories. 

 Sushi meet ensemble! And the purple iromuji makes another appearance. I love accessories with kimono!

Halloween kitsuke! I'm thinking after this ensemble I am needing more black and hot pink in my wardrobe!

 Finally my bunny kimono makes this list. I have been lusting after a bunny kimono for years and I am so happy to have this one now!

My Resolutions for 2016: 

1. Set up my kimono room!
2. Continue wearing kimono at least once a month every month!
3. Get crafting some cute accessories!
4. Lose weight to better fit into my smaller items. 
5. Buy less kimono and more of everything else!

Thank you for reading!

Kitsuke Dump Post!

I haven't been posting regularly at all, but I have still be dressing up. I figured I would just dump all the pics of recent outfits into one post and then we could all move on. I'll try and keep them in chronological order.

Hal-Con Day 2/Halloween Outfit

I knew I wanted to dress up in kimono for halloween, and Hal-con taking place over halloween weekend seemed to be a perfect excuse. I decided to do a witch theme, so I got a witch's hat and dug out my pentacle earrings. I absolutely love this tsumugi komon, I just wish it was a tad bigger.

I didn't realize until after the day was over and I went to post the pics that my hubby's shadow is covering most of me, gah!

Also this obi was giving me quite a bit of trouble. That back design just didn't want to line up nicely.

Hal-Con Day 3

I did a panel on kimono on day 3 so I decided to go with my best fitting kimono to make a good impression. I went with my blue geometric tsuke obi because by day 3 I was feeling work out and head-achy and didn't want anything too challenging. I didn't really get any full body pics of this one unfortunately. 

Christmas Craft Meet

Another one I didn't get any full pics of. I had wanted to wear my hitoe moon, bunny, and clover tsukesage at least once before it got way to cold for hitoe. This weekend was surprisingly warm for November so I took it. This was one of those days that I slept to late and had to rush to get dressed so I pulled out the blue tsuke obi again. It is fast becoming one of my most used items. It matches many things and I love the convenience of tsuke obi. Also broke out my lace haori here as well. 

Casual Lunch Meet

This outfit was not at all what I was originally intended to wear. I was disappointed to find on the day of the meet, that I had put on a few too many pounds in the last few month and could no longer comfortably fit into my intended kimono (at least not without flashing other people). I ended up just tossing on the biggest kimono I own in frustration (which is my moon bunny tsukesage) and once again the tsuke obi because at this point I was so far behind schedule. I was thanking my lucky stars it was almost 15 degrees Celsius that day so I was just warm enough. I did manage to get a few full body pics this time around though so yay! Also first kimono pics with my new do!

And that's it for 2015! I successfully completed my 2015 New Years Resolution to wear kimono at least once a month every month. I intend to keep it up in 2016!

Thank you for looking!