This time I was geisha and guest at tea ceremony.Tea ceremony at an office party is highly in appropriate, but still I had fun.
I decided on my brick red with maple leaves susohiki because this one has a strong fall feeling, besides maple there are chrysanthemums, and also plum-blossom, strange, those are for winter, but well, this is the most autumn-y susohiki I have... and... she has a wonderful soft green extra lining with kanji on it.
I paired her with an antique obi, I think the combination was just right.And of course the red "under obi" and white with red obi age, the obi jime is soft green, like the lining. I was looking for a stronger/darker, more fall-like green, but I had none. But this is ok I guess.
I was in make-up and kimono from 4 in the after noon till 3 at night!
The make-up starts to itch a little after a couple of hours, the kimono is ok, accept from being hot! And being hot makes the make-up itch even more... poor geisha and maiko and kabuki actors and....The wig I only wore from 7 till 12, because, that's really too heavy to wear all the time!
In the car, to and back from the place where the ceremony was I was happy wig less, looked weird yes, but happy. After a while the wig really kind of hurts, and then after a while you get used to the pain, but still it feels like taking of a corset, taking the wig of after hours!
