At first, I just knitted a rope-like belt and wrapped it around my body layer by layer. It was not until the edo period that it was changed to a wide belt. It was only three or four centimeters wide. Later, it gradually widened and became a belt that needs to be folded in half and wrapped around the waist today. However, this kind of winding will hide the girth of women and turn them into a cylindrical figure with a general thickness from top to bottom, so women have come up with a way to tie a knot on the belt and try to make the knot close to the breast to emphasize the curve.
At first, the knot of kimono belt, like all men's belts in the world, was tied on the front and the knot was very small. But the original purpose of the belt is to attract attention, so we have to fight harder and harder, and finally we can't even see our toes, walking like a beer belly. Because of this, it is inconvenient to move. In the early edo period, Japanese women simply rebelled with unprecedented costumes and moved the knot of their belts behind their backs. The necklaces, brooches and other decorations indispensable to western women are completely transformed into ropes or other things, all of which are decorated on the belts in front or behind. So please don't underestimate that bag, it's actually very learned. If you look closely, you will know whether your family is good or poor. When wearing a kimono, you generally can't wear other shiny jewelry.
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