Kimono Coat, haori

This is called a "haori" in Japanese, which is a type of kimono coats.  Well, I have to admit that this is not sewn by me.  My mom sewed it when she was in her 20's or so for her daughters even though she wasn't married yet and had no kids at all!  Luckily she had two daughters!

Anyway, what I want to say is how this was sewn well.  As a professional kimono sewist, my mom sewed lots of lots of kimono until she retired.  I always admire her.  In Japanese culture, we find beauty and elegance in something small or somewhere you can't see.  For example,  it is common that you give money when you attend a wedding or a funeral.  However, there are some rules to give money.  You can use a handkerchief (called a "fukusa") to wrap the envelop but you need to follow a certain way; otherwise, you can be rude! Ouch!

Oh...it was hard to think of examples...anyway, in the field of kimono, a sewist makes decorative stitches to show that the kimono is brand-new.  

Usually, unlike western clothes a collar on a kimono is really long and it comes to the bottom of the kimono. And in this photo, it shows the bottom and the photo below shows the both sides.

Can you believe you will take it out the decorative stitches before you put it on? It's too pretty to take it!