All I need are the wee little boots

[chamekke]

As some of you know, I study Japanese tea ceremony. This hobby requires me to wear kimono. Also, obi - that wide "sash" you see worn around the waist although IMHO a better descriptor would be waist trimming sauna belt, those suckers are HOT.

Anyway! Ichiroya is a second-hand online kimono and obi shop in Japan, and a good place to find affordable togs. I was idly browsing through today's offerings when I came across this little number in the obi section:



I thought, there's something eerily familiar about this, isn't there? So I looked at a close-up:



Extre-e-e-eme close-up:



Bingo!



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To be honest ... if I could embroider a musketeer hat onto this thing, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.