At 01:51 PM 8/31/2005, you wrote:
The shinto wedding kimono is pure white (shiromoku = pure white).
When did Japanese wedding gowns become pure white? Or is it Shinto only? My mom was Buddhist, not Shinto.
My mother's wedding kimono is dark, almost black IIRC, both in her wedding photos and what I remember when she wore it when I was a child for a fashion show on wedding gowns. I have yet to go through all her kimono stash in her house (I just found a pretty one for her funeral near the top), but I will this fall as I inventory everything. She had two large metal chests holding everything.
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