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A yukata is a type of clothing worn by the Japanese, especially women, at firework festivals and other summer events. It is a kind of casual kimono, also commonly worn after the bath at Japanese-style hotels; the word literally means bath robe or bath clothing. A yukata is a cooling garment: one big piece of cloth with two wide sleeves, kept from falling open by an obi belt, and traditionally worn with geta sandals.
A yukata is a cooling garment to wear. It consists of one big piece of cloth with two wide sleeves. It's not always obvious how to wear a yukata properly. An obi (belt) is used to keep the yukata from falling open. Also, a special type of sandal, geta, which only has one strap, is worn with the yukata.
Traditionally yukata were mostly made of blue-printed cotton but today there is a wide variety of colors and designs. Many young women wear yukata today, arranging them in various ways.
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The yukata is what the kimono family becomes in summer: unlined, made of cotton rather than silk, cut from essentially one length of cloth with wide sleeves, and worn without the layers and formal accessories a formal kimono requires. That simplicity is functional. Cotton breathes and absorbs in humid heat, the loose wrap fit lets air move, and the garment can be laundered easily — essential for clothing worn at crowded outdoor festivals and after bathing, its two classic settings.
Hotels and inns keep the bath-robe role alive: the yukata provided in a Japanese-style hotel is both sleepwear-adjacent lounging dress and acceptable dress for walking to the bath or around the inn. The festival role is more expressive — modern yukata come in a wide variety of colours and designs far beyond the traditional blue-printed cotton, and how the obi is tied and the accessories arranged is where individual style is shown.
Because the yukata is a wrapped garment, the details of wearing it matter: the obi belt does the structural work of keeping it closed, and geta — wooden sandals with a single strap arrangement — are the traditional footwear pairing. The sumo connection shows the garment's other face as prescribed dress: junior wrestlers must appear in public in yukata whatever the weather, a rule that makes the lightest of summer garments serve as a year-round uniform of rank.
A yukata is a casual kimono worn in Japan especially at firework festivals and other summer events, and after the bath at Japanese-style hotels. The word literally means bath robe or bath clothing, and the garment is designed to be cooling.
A yukata consists of one big piece of cloth with two wide sleeves. An obi belt is used to keep it from falling open, and a special type of sandal called geta, which has one strap, is worn with it.
Traditionally yukata were mostly made of blue-printed cotton, but today there is a wide variety of colours and designs, and many young women wear them in various arrangements. Among men, junior-ranked sumo wrestlers are expected to wear yukata in public regardless of weather or season.