Beige Midi Hakama Skirt 'Torinoko'
A women's beige hakama-inspired A-line skirt in a slubbed cotton blend with a dipped hem.
Beige Midi Hakama Skirt 'Torinoko'
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A women's A-line skirt in a slubbed cotton blend, beige, falling from a soft gathered waist without pleats to a hem that sits at the calf in front and dips lower at the back. Sizes M to XXL; runs small, take one size up.
Sizing
Cut to Asian sizing, which runs smaller than US sizing. Between two sizes, take the larger. Measurements are taken flat; allow 2 cm.
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Fabric & care
The composition is stated in the description and printed on the inner label. Machine wash cold, inside out, with similar colours. Hang to dry. Iron on low, inside out over prints or embroidery.
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What we sell, and what we don't
Japanese designs, made in Asia. Cotton, linen or polyester as stated on each piece, never silk. We name every garment for what it is: a kimono jacket is not a haori, an unlined kimono is not a yukata.
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About this piece
A beige A-line skirt in a slubbed weave, unpleated, dipping at the back
Beige in a slubbed weave is the colour of cloth before it is dyed, and this skirt is cut in it. It falls from a soft gathered waist in an A-line to the calf, without pleats, with a hem cut higher at the front and lower at the back, in a cotton blend whose slubs give it the look of a coarse linen. Nothing is printed on it. The weave and the line are the design.
It is the summer skirt of the three A-lines, the one for a white tee and sandals and a day near water, and the one that looks most expensive for the least reason.
The name, Torinoko, is the colour of an eggshell, the warm off-white of the old Japanese paper made from mulberry, and the skirt is that colour.
The cloth is a cotton blend with a dry, visibly slubbed surface, chosen because a pale skirt this wide needs cloth that swings, breathes and does not crease into a map, and a blend does what the linen it resembles does not. It washes cold and hangs.
Wear it with a white tee tucked in, as in the photograph, and white trainers, or with a navy top and leather sandals. A tan belt if you want the waist marked. The waist is soft and sits where you put it.
The hem is the detail: a hand lower at the back than at the front, so the skirt has a line from the side and a swing from behind, and the pale cloth shows both.
From across a street it is a beige skirt that moves. From close the slub shows in every inch of the weave and the gathers show at the waist. It is the skirt for July, and for the person who has stopped worrying about pale clothes.
The hakama it borrows from was pleated; here the gathers at the waist give the width somewhere to go and the slubbed cloth does the rest, with a texture that a flat cloth in this colour would lack. It is the summer version of the simplest idea.
It goes with white, with navy, with a tan sandal, with a straw bag, and with a cream jumper when the evening cools. It is the skirt for a holiday, and for the week after, when the tan is still there.
Sizes run from M to XXL. It is cut to Asian sizing and runs small, so take one size up from your usual. Between two sizes, take the larger.
Questions about the hakama
What is a hakama?
The wide, pleated trouser of the samurai, the archer and the graduate: divided legs cut so wide they read as a skirt, tied at the waist with long cords. Ours keep the width and the tie and are cut for trainers; the skirts and culottes here borrow the shape without the pleats.
Trousers or skirt?
Every page says which. The men's pairs and the culottes are divided, with a leg each side. The three A-line skirts are skirts.
Does it run small?
Yes. Our pieces are cut to Asian sizing, which runs smaller than US sizing. Take one size up from your usual; between two sizes, take the larger. Measurements taken flat are in the size guide.
What is it made of?
Cotton for the men's hakama and trousers, a cotton blend for the A-line skirts, and polyester for the three pleated culottes, whose pressed pleats and sheer layers need it. Each page says which. Never silk.
Is it made in Japan?
No. It is a Japanese design, made in Asia. We say so on every page.
How do I wash it?
Machine wash cold with similar colours and hang to dry from the waistband so the pleats fall straight. Sheer culottes on a gentle cycle. Cotton softens with washing and needs no iron.
What we sell, and what we don't
Japanese designs, made in Asia. Cotton, linen or polyester as stated on each piece, never silk. We say so on every page, because the alternative is selling you a word instead of a garment.
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