I’m the one on the right, wearing a blue-green ofurisode with botan (peony flower) motif and a Taisho era Roman maru obi.

(LOL at our different skin tones- we have the same parents and get the same amount of sunlight, but I inherited all of the Native American traits, while SuperWombatchan could pass as a British person. Genetics are fabulous.)

I tried using padding on myself so that the lines would be more even, but it still didn’t make the kimono folds even and DID make me bloat out so that the obi didn’t fit right, so I think from now on I’ll just skip the padding (it’s not that comfortable, anyway.)

I had lots of problems with obi- mine wouldn’t fold right (it has NO center obi shin, believe it or not- are all antique maru obi like that?) and SuperWombatchan wore a tsuke obi, but I had never tied that particular tsuke obi before, and she was squirming, so I think I tied it too low for someone as young as her- and that really bothered my OCD, so I kept trying to adjust it. :/

She was going to wear her ofurisode, but decided to pick something out of my collection instead.