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“The wrap dress is the most traditional form of dressing: It's like a robe, it's like a kimono, it's like a toga. It doesn't have buttons or zippers. What made it different was that it was jersey; therefore, it was close to the body and it was a print.”

Made Different Body Form Dresses Traditional Made It Print Buttons Dressings Wraps Jersey Robes Zippers Togas Kimonos

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“Sabi is the color of haikai. It is different from tranquility. For example, if an old man dresses up in armor and helmet and goes to the battlefield, or in colorful brocade kimono, attending (his lord) at a banquet, [sabi] is like this old figure.”

Ifs Men Different Lord Figures Example Color Dresses Old Man Tranquility Battlefields Armor Colorful Attending Helmet Banquets Kimonos

Author:Matsuo Basho

“I think the silhouette of the kimono costume will become engraved in people's minds. I do think there'll be lots of red accents in the near future. For me personally, I can't see myself flaunting around in a geisha uniform but it'll make me smile when I see what others do with it.”

People Thinking Mind I Can Red Uniforms Accents Costumes Silhouettes Engraved Make Me Smile Geisha Flaunting Kimonos

Author:Colleen Atwood

“But what I could see out of the corner of my eye made me think of two lovely bundles of silk floating along a stream. In a moment they were hovering on the walkway in front of me, where they sank down and smoothed their kimono across their knees.”

Thinking Made Two Moments Eye Fronts Down And Corners Lovely Knees Streams Floating Silk Bundles Hovering Kimonos Walkways

Author:Arthur Golden

“Even after going to law school, following the footsteps of my father (an accomplished lawyer and judge at the time); I realized that the suit would never replace the kimono!”

School Law Father Judging Following Lawyer I Realized Suits Accomplished Footsteps Law School Kimonos

Author:Carlos Machado

“When i've done camera test, after we've shot and I've seen the monitor with the glasses (wearing a Kimono) and looking by myself in 3D. Oh my god. Especially for a Samurai film. I've never seen that. It's kind of a culture shock.”

Kind Done Film Culture Shots Tests Cameras Glasses Shock Samurai Culture Shock Kimonos

Author:Hiroyuki Sanada

“I've been wearing kimono for several years, and armor.”

Years Armor Kimonos

Author:Hiroyuki Sanada

“It's more than just a dress; it's a spirit. The wrap dress was an interesting cultural phenomenon, and one that has lasted 30 years. What is so special about it is that it's actually a very traditional form of clothing. It's like a toga, it's like a kimono, without buttons, without a zipper. What made my wrap dresses different is that they were made out of jersey and they sculpted the body.”

Years Made Different Body Form Spirit Interesting Special Dresses Traditional Phenomenon Clothings Buttons Wraps Jersey Zippers Togas Kimonos

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“The road was frozen. The village lay quiet under the cold sky. Komako hitched up the skirt of her kimono and tucked it into her obi. The moon shone like a blade frozen in blue ice.”

Sky Cold Quiet Moon Blue Lays Ice Village Frozen Blades Skirts Kimonos

Book:Snow Country

Source: Snow Country

“A novelist can’t be without a kimono and pen!(Shigure)”

Novelists Pens Kimonos

Author:Natsuki Takaya

“I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and the woman in the kimono washing her hair. Some day, all this will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed.”

Thinking Men Hair Window Opposites Cameras Fixed Passive Printed Washing Shutters Shaving Kimonos

Author:Christopher Isherwood

“He had never looked forward to the wisdom and other vaunted benefits of old age. Would he be able to die young—and if possible free of all pain? A graceful death—as a richly patterned kimono, thrown carelessly across a polished table, slides unobtrusively down into the darkness of the floor beneath. A death marked by elegance.”

Ifs Age Able Pain Young Dies Darkness Benefits Tables Old Age Thrown Elegance Slides Polished Die Young Kimonos

Book:Spring Snow

Source: Spring Snow

“She was sitting cross-legged on her bed in her white kimono, writing in a notebook with an ink pen she dipped in a bottle. 'Never let a man stay the night,' she told me. 'Dawn has a way of casting a pall on any night magic.' The night magic sounded lovely. Someday I would have lovers and write a poem after.”

Men Way Writing Night White Magic Lovers Bed Sitting Crosses Lovely Dawn Someday Pens Bottles Casting Ink Notebook Kimonos Ink Pens

Book:White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

“The Red Kimono tells it all—the bitterness and pain as well as the joy, pride and patriotism of a people too resilient to be beaten by racism.”

People Wells Pain Joy Pride Racism Red Bitterness Beaten Resilient Kimonos

Author:Sandra Dallas

“In real life, a lot of people at that level will have their kimonos made especially for them.”

People Made Real Levels Real Life Being Real Kimonos

Author:Colleen Atwood

“The neck is kind of what's sexy in Japan, so you have to have the kimono a little bit back. It was just a whole different way of appealing to what was sexy.”

Way Kind Littles Different Whole Bits Little Bit Sexy Different Ways Necks Japan Kimonos

Author:Lucy Liu

“I might wear a tux on Monday. Or a kimono!”

Might Wwe Monday Kimonos

Author:CM Punk

“The Japanese have become so smitten with the Western condiment - its texture as silky as a kimono, its tang as understated as the tang of Zen - that today they have a word for mayonnaise junkie: mayora.”

Today Funny Humorous Western Japan Texture Junkie Smitten Condiments Mayonnaise Understated Kimonos

Author:Tom Robbins