In modern times, married women dress for it, but it is said that closed to side and cut sleeves into short of Long-sleeved when a young woman become 18 years old,19-years-old,or their marriage, originally.

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　Originally, it has a meaning as clothes strongly which the woman who grew up should wear.Therefor,it distinguishes "Kimono with short sleeves" as a narrow meaning that are made sleeves short from the first and the side was sewn without the crevice for adult women.

　Tomesode is generally divided into Black tomesode and Color tomesode.

・Black Tomesode
　Married person and single woman's the first formal dresss. It wears it in formal places such as weddings and the wedding receptions.

・Color Tomesode
　Because the color is bright, it is the best for the seat of congratulation.

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　In a large meaning,it is shown that lost the portion which sewed the body and a sleeve and the "sleeve" which made the "sode",or a thing with such a sleeve.

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　The kimono of Chouzi, which is black solid color and 5 crested kimonos for morning.
A black belt may be worn solid color as a semi- mourning dress at the time of a funeral and a Buddhist service.
　The black mourning dress is mainly worn to a farewell service is (Habutae) in Kanto, and is Ichikoshisyukumen in Kansai.Furthermore, it is the full dress of a black mourning dress, having also attached five crests to this.

　The crest is the crest of a parents' home or woman's in-laws.Which you wear, it depends on.
　An obi bustle, an obi band and a bag, and Japanese sandals are also unified black.
　A color mourning dress is the abbreviation full dress of the mourning worn at the time of a Buddhist service.

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　Generally, a relative wear a black mourning dress and after that, the cold color mourning which dyed a “Hinata” or sunny place crest on back is worn up to the 2nd anniversary of the person's death.The color of a belt is a black material and is changed into Bonzi, a lotus, etc. on gray ground gradually.Half-han and underkimono are whites for a black mourning dress and a color mourning it is better to be a plain color for others color.

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　 As it unfolds, Kimono is a pattern is connected, and became like one picture.
　Kimono is the semi-full dress comes after “Tomesode” and is worn for the wedding caremony, a party and a tea ceremony which is formal and stylish.

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　　It is a typical kimono of a style.Except full dresses, such as a marriage ceremony, it can wear in various scenes.

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　 "Yukata" or bathing wear at the time of bathing originally.It is the kimono of the cotton of a single cut that go to the spa for drying out, and after the middle of Edo period is replaced “Katabira” for summer time.There are few of the old-fashioned Yukata which is a classical “Shibori” or desin ?diaphragm with which an old air drifts decreased.

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・A black material and crested formal Japanese wear
　The first male full dress.The five crest can be worn for the mourning and ceremony.

・Variety entertainments and crested formal Japanese wear
　 Now, there are many people who wear the almost same Kimono of as a black material crested kimono.

・Formal Japanese wear which a crest does not attach.
　It can wear also as full dress.

・Informal dress
　　It is the way of wearing which does not wear a Hakama. There are a solid color kimono, a wool yarn kimono, a Yukata, etc.

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