(August 6, 2022 at 10:23 pm)Jehanne Wrote: If you want to be environmentally friendly, whether biologically male or female, wear skirts, as they require fewer washings than do pants or shorts. I wash mine once a season; they also dry easier.
Before sewing machines were introduced to Japan, kimono were all hand stitched very loosely. Except for spot cleaning they were never laundered, but every few years the ladies would completely unstitch them and wash the parts in a river. Then sew them together again.
The fabric was generally so well made that they could be passed down for generations. In fact it's kind of a joke in Japan today that every family has a chest full of grandma's kimono which look like new, but nobody wears. I wish they would come back into fashion.
Today we all wear Uniqlo T-shirts that last one year if you're lucky, but at home we have a chest full of 100-year-old fabric that has another century of life left in it.
