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Jan 7, 2018 8 years ago
Aline
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So, there's [item2=Eddie Bell Oishii Salmon Kimono], right?

The way to wrap the kimono is reversed, with its right side going over the left side. In Japan, reversing the kimono like this is only reserved to burial ceremonies, and it's considered bad luck for a living person to use their kimono/yukata like this. (Here's a link talking about some mistakes people tend to do when wearing kimono and the reverse wrapping is one of them.) In fact, as far as I'm aware, that's the only Subeta item that got such an art mistake.

I feel I may be getting too nitpicky over something that seems like a small detail, but at the same time, I felt it needed to be said.

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Jan 7, 2018 8 years ago
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Dexter

This really isn't a bug per say just feedback about the way something was drawn. I can move it to site feedback or even suggestions and ideas if you'd prefer it there.

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Jan 8, 2018 8 years ago
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Thank you! I always get confused with where to post... ^^;;

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Jan 8, 2018 8 years ago
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I would agree with fixing this, but this item has been around as it is for almost ten years already. Plus, that's not the only item. The is also a SubQ item with a reversed wrap. There are quite a few CWs with improperly wrapped kimonos: (*). The latter three are part of large kimono series, too.

I agree that respecting other cultures and their traditions is important, but if no one else has mentioned this over the ten years that these items have been around, it seems a bit much to ask the artists to redo all of them. However, I hope your point is kept in mind when kimonos are drawn in the future.

Jan 8, 2018 8 years ago
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Bren

I'm not an artist, but the way the HA is facing slightly off to one side, I think drawing it like that is so you can see more detail, more than anything else.

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Jan 9, 2018 8 years ago Official
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Rah

That's some interesting information, - we'll keep it in mind for the future even if we cannot get the existing kimonos fixed! There are certainly some cultural things I wouldn't even THINK would be considered bad practice!


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Jan 9, 2018 8 years ago
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Well maybe it's time for the Oishii set to be revamped anyway, and the kimono can be drawn in the correct way.

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Jan 11, 2018 8 years ago
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DarkRyuu

From the description, it's made from a big flap of fish flesh that's created with the intent to be eaten off of your body. Maybe the incorrect folding adds to the kink? Or, it could be a joke, since it's dead animal clothes? I mean, I don't feel like Eddie Bell's going for any sort of social correctness with their high fashion food clothing designs. :P

As mentioned, it's also more visually interesting to have it folded over like so, with the way that the avatars stand. It's kind of a boring pinkish flesh flap otherwise. It could be likened to how men shirts and women shirts are supposed to be buttoned on a specific side. You can say: 'that's tradition' but most people probably don't know or care and aren't bothered by it. Of course, the buttoned shirts could also all be redone, so that if you use the F base, it buttons one way, or if you use the M base, they go the opposite way. But, does it really hurt if it does not change? And, to be horribly annoying, it's not a japanese thing on here, it'd be a shengui guo thing, right? They may not care how you wear/fold it and might just be happy that you're trying at all. Let's just do our best, and all that. (but, a quick look over the characters with wrapped clothes seem to hold to the 'right' way of doing it.)

Anyway, it's not like people would ever lie on the internet. No one would purposefully be feeding you false information about other cultures and traditions... right? [sub]& it took forever to find these, so i hope that someone else might enjoy them. haha. if not, please take my deepest apology. ❤️[/sub]

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Jan 11, 2018 8 years ago
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MacLachlan

I WAS WONDERING ABOUT THAT. And if Subeta had done that on purpose.

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Jan 11, 2018 8 years ago
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Mackenzi

If that Subeautique line ever gets revamped maybe they'll consider fixing it, thought I do like the thought of it being folded a certain way because it is meant to be worn by someone about to be made into a sushi roll and eaten. Like wrapping them up for death. :B

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