The Japan Matsuri comes once a year, a festival celebration commemorating Japanese culture. From music, to food, to traditional dress, the festival gives you an opportunity to enlighten your knowledge of Japan. With so many people attending the festival, I'm surprised people managed to make it through the crowds. I was just struggling to get some takoyaki for myself as soon as I arrived.
Honestly, it was really interesting to watch how they put on the yukatas, there's actually a lot of different pieces involved to put it all together. We got to mix and match with the yukata pieces, and there was quite a variety of colours and designs to choose from.
I actually thought the smaller outfits were actually really cute, but the designs for the yukatas looked really cool. I hope that when I get the chance to visit Japan, I'll probably buy a yukata/kimono for myself, and learn how to put it on. It will be an interesting challenge!
When it was my turn to actually try on the yukatas, let's say it got a bit too close for comfort. But to be honest, it couldn't be helped as they needed to make sure it was fitted properly to our bodies otherwise the yukata wouldn't come together properly.
The final piece of the yukata involved putting on the obi belt around the yukata. It was quite tight, but that's understandable, but I found it really cool how they did the knot. It looks beautiful if you look from behind. Honestly I should of brought a hairband to tie my hair up because I think it would have made it a lot easier to put on the yukata since my hair kept getting in the way aha.
My cousin joined in as well in trying the yukata, originally she wasn't going to do it, but I'm quite glad she decided to participate with me. It made it a lot more enjoyable, and the amount of candid shots involved was pretty eventful.
I think it was a pretty interesting comparison as I chose a lighter subtle design along with the yellow patterned-belt whilst she went for the navy detailed design for her yukata combined with a plain red belt. I think the funniest thing about posting a picture of us together on Facebook was my mother's comment about us being "two cute Japanese girls" - that honestly made my day aha.
Overall, this event highlight would obviously have to be the yukatas. It's always interesting developing your knowledge of different cultures, and the experience was fun as well. I apologise for the lateness of this post, I've still got one more festival post to catch up on, so look forward to my next post on the Vietnam Festival! Thank you for reading!
PS: Thanks Michael for taking the pictures whilst we were trying out the yukatas, your photography got much better, even though majority of the photos were pretty candid aha!
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