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 Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 10:09 am
shakespearerules My biggest danger is that I have my Paypal tied directly to my bank account, which means that I have no roadblocks to me spending all of my money. XDDD XD Me too. I'm still not sure if it's the smartest thing I ever did, or the dumbest.
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Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 1:46 pm
It's all a matter of control.
I had to sit down and budget exactly how much I would be spending. I did so more on even numbers including shipping. Most of the items I bought ended with either $0.99 or $0.98, so I just rounded up to the full cent.
It saved me much of the hastle.
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Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 2:03 pm
I think my biggest expense is going to be insuring my collection, honestly sweatdrop I've spent a pretty penny on a few items, but it's balanced out by finding amazing deals on other things.
I looked into insuring it all a while back, and my three oldest pieces alone were estimated at book value of $1000, $800, and $500. gonk A lot of stuff was bought online, swapped, or brought home from trunk sales, which means I don't have receipts or anything.
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Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 3:11 pm
As a person with only one Yukata, it probably wouldn't be worth getting insurance.
My next big problem is waiting. Everything is paid for, so now it's just waiting. Patience is not a virtue in my family... gonk gonk gonk
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Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 3:35 pm
I've been trying to remember how much all of my stuff costs, since I'm trying to organize my collection somehow. Where would you go to get kimono appraised for insurance? I don't have any plans for my collection to stop growing, so it might be good to know at some point. 3nodding
I'm...fairly patient. Usually. I still check my mail multiple times throughout the day to see if my next package has arrived, though; they don't have one single time of the day for mail delivery in our mail room.
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Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 4:43 pm
I wouldn't bother insuring anything modern, but for anything older or rarer, you can just contact the company that handles your house or car insurance, odds are they can insure kimono as "art objects".
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Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 3:57 pm
Moonblossom I wouldn't bother insuring anything modern, but for anything older or rarer, you can just contact the company that handles your house or car insurance, odds are they can insure kimono as "art objects". I don't have exact ages on a lot of things, though. Especially the stuff I end up getting from American eBayers who really don't know about kimono. I can generally estimate fairly well, but 'Showa' isn't a very precise indicator for how old something actually is, since it covers over half of the last century.
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Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 8:21 am
My rule of thumb is generally to consider anything with hip-length or longer sleeves and a red lining "older". Pre-WWII, basically.
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Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 11:51 am
Moonblossom My rule of thumb is generally to consider anything with hip-length or longer sleeves and a red lining "older". Pre-WWII, basically. Then why the change to white lining? Many Juban I see have white collars, so I would assume that white Juban are more likely to be post-WWII?
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Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 4:52 pm
A lot of it has to do with paring back on silk and dyes during the war, if I'm not mistaken.
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Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 5:43 pm
That's what I've generally seen, too (my Taisho Irotomesode has a bright red lining). Is there a time when purple lining was popular? I have an old tsumugi with red and purple lining.
And wouldn't pure white Juban be paired with Tomesode? I think the white juban is a big part of it. And I think juban have white collars so that nothing weird shows through your han-eri (and then if you don't sew one on, then you still have a neutral collar color).
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Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 8:51 am
If by tomesode, you mean specifically kuro-tomesode, then yeah they should have white collars.
But technically anything that's not furisode is tomesode, and you can definitely wear coloured haneri with komon, tsukesage, houmongi, even older, non-crested iro-tomesode.
I've seen some purple linings before, but I don't think they point to a specific time period. If it's partially red, I'd still assume pre-WWII.
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Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 9:00 pm
Moonblossom If by tomesode, you mean specifically kuro-tomesode, then yeah they should have white collars. But technically anything that's not furisode is tomesode, and you can definitely wear coloured haneri with komon, tsukesage, houmongi, even older, non-crested iro-tomesode. I've seen some purple linings before, but I don't think they point to a specific time period. If it's partially red, I'd still assume pre-WWII. Yeah, I have no idea how old this thing is. It feels like it's never been worn (the silk is very stiff, like the starch hasn't been worn out of the threads yet), and it's so short, I can't even wear an ohashori with it, and I don't exactly tower over most Japanese people. The threads at the seams are very old, though. Just in wearing it, I popped a seam on the poor old thing.
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Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 7:06 am
If it's really stiff, almost like taffeta, and it's very short and has a coloured lining, it sounds to me like Taisho-era Meisen. Is the design woven in, and does it have slightly "blurry" edges?
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Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 2:42 pm
The design is just checked, but yeah, it's woven.
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