{"product_id":"mens-light-grey-jinbei-usugumo","title":"Men's Light Grey Jinbei 'Usugumo'","description":"\u003ch2\u003eLight grey crinkle gauze with nothing on it, top and trousers, for the hottest weeks\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the jinbei with nothing on it: a light grey top that wraps and ties at the side, and loose trousers in the same cloth, with no embroidery, no trim and no contrast. The cloth is a crinkled cotton gauze, two thin layers woven together and puckered in the finish, and the pucker is the only pattern. One patch pocket on the hip. Sleeves to the elbow. That is all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlain jinbei are what the Japanese actually wear; the embroidered ones are for the shops. This is the version for the person who wants the garment rather than the souvenir, in the grey that reads clean in the morning and calm at night.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe name, Usugumo, means thin cloud, the high haze of a summer sky, and it is the traditional name for a grey this light.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe gauze is cotton, crinkled in the finish rather than by ironing, so it never needs pressing and goes back to its texture after every wash. It is light enough to sleep in, thick enough to open the door in, and it dries on a line in an hour. Two layers keep it from being sheer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWear the top crossed left over right and knot the tie at the hip; the trousers sit at the waist on a soft band. At home it replaces a T-shirt and shorts and looks better than both. Out, with sandals, it is a summer outfit that reads like it belongs to someone who has been to Japan and paid attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUp close the crinkle shows its fine random pucker, and the seams show the straight, square construction of a garment that has not changed in two hundred years. From across a street it is a pale grey two-piece, and that is enough.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt goes with grey, white, black and bare feet. It is the plain set to buy first, before the navy or the black, because the light grey is the one that shows the cloth for what it is, and the cloth is the point.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWash cold, hang, wear. The gauze softens a little with each wash and the crinkle comes back every time, so the set at the end of the summer is better than the set at the start, which is more than most summer clothes can say.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSizes 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"YONAKU","offers":[{"title":"M","offer_id":59207697236316,"sku":"14:193#Grey;5:361386","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"L","offer_id":59207697269084,"sku":"14:193#Grey;5:361385","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XL","offer_id":59207697301852,"sku":"14:193#Grey;5:100014065","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XXL","offer_id":59207697334620,"sku":"14:193#Grey;5:4182","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1055\/3386\/6332\/files\/mens-light-grey-jinbei-usugumo-1.jpg?v=1790580333","url":"https:\/\/yonaku.com\/products\/mens-light-grey-jinbei-usugumo","provider":"YONAKU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}