Kimono Challenge #2 - Your dearest kimono item(s)

The kimono challenge:

1. How did you discover and get into kimono?
2. Your dearest kimono item(s).
3. Your most used kimono item(s) (not counting jubans, datejimes etc.).
4. Your least used kimono item(s).
5. Your favourite coordination(s) so far.
6. What do you like and don’t like about kimono.
7. Kimono confessions. Did you know that…
8. Your dream kitsuke items (or at least items you really really want but can’t get for whatever reason).
9. Your biggest kimono fears.
10. Your biggest kimono inspiration.
11. Your kimono collection.
12. The evolution of your kitsuke.
13. Your special kimono memory.

Your dearest kimono item(s)

Pfff, that's a tough question... One of my dearest kimono items would be my orange furisode.

It's the first kimono I ever bought, and it's given me my new and dear friend Misuchi.

I also love my hitoe peacock kimono (don't really know if it's a tsukesage or a houmongi), together with my peacock-feather obi. Just because it's such a perfect match!

The last one I'll post, is an olivegreen houmongi (I guess, really terrible at this) I got from Misuchi, for helping with her website. She saw I had an orange obi with carts on it, and this kimono also has little carts on it. And this is also a perfect match.

 

Starter of the challenge: Kira Kira Kimono

Other bloggers doing the challenge:

• AF’s Japan Now & Then
• Along The Silk Road; Adventures With(in) Kimono
• BebeTaian
• Geishaface
• HikariKimono
• KimonoAi
• Kitty Kanzashi
• Kyoto RedBird
• My Kimono
• Naomi no Kimono Asobi
• SilberRegen
• Strawberry Kimono
• Takoya-Kimono