Monday 17th September, 2018
Clothing photos, Kimonos, Silk
Monday 10th September, 2018
Blog meta, Gallery
Before diverting into style transfer, I posted some pictures of this flower-decorated kimono top. Here's another with a rather different design. Like the first, I bought it from Unicorn. It was longer, but to my non-Chinese eyes, that made it look like a dressing gown. So Unicorn shortened it for me by folding up the excess material into a hem, and sewed on a popper to close it at the waist. The result is a decorative summer top, with colouring nicely matching the Linaria growing on the wall.
Unlike with some of the clothes I've shown, I'm pretty sure that the
manufacturers of this one are still going. Searching for the Chinese
characters in the name, aided by Purple
Culture's mouse-written Chinese input program, I found this site: https://tbg1688.1688.com/. The page
mentions the Linhai Yujie Garment Embroidery Factory, and that
天宝工 or TianBaoGong is its brand. Judging by the
photographs, Linhai Yujie Garment Embroidery make a lot of designs.
This is one, and shows a kimono very similar to mine as it was before
being shortened.
