Description
The Yukata version of the kimono is a modification of the traditional Japanese costume, which can be worn as a dress or as an accessory to trousers. By design, YUKATA is a very casual outfit. During the Heian period, it was a light bathing suit. During the Edo period, it evolved into a garment eagerly worn by ordinary people.
Typically, a yukata is an unlined cotton garment with the simplest, most basic structure. Due to its thin fabric and open, airy construction, yukata is currently worn mainly in the summer season, after bathing or as home clothing.
Yukata can also be used as a practice outfit for nihon-buyo (classical Japanese dance). Originally it was made mainly of plain indigo-dyed cotton material, with undyed areas left.
In recent years, yukata are made of materials with wonderful colors and patterns, because in many cases it is the yukata that gives the only chance to show traditional Japanese clothing in everyday life.
