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**moopogyOvenny** · 10-27-2010, 05:52 AM

It must be true, Ricky Gervaise said it was. OK, well at least you can say the neck tie is decorative. The same can't be said for the koshiita unless you can get them with sumptuous embroidery.

Well, my own theory (FWIW, and should be taken with a grain of salt) is that the koshiita was developed to press the kimono to the small of the back, and prevent it from riding up and billowing over the obi/hakama over the course of daily movement. People of the time when hakama were daily wear would often keep things in their sleeves and in the folds of their kimono. The koshiita would prevent things from getting all the way to the back, and messing up one's appearance. See Kikuchiyo fumbling for his lineage scroll in "Seven Samurai".

10-27-2010, 05:52 AM	#26
moopogyOvenny Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 657 Senior Member	It must be true, Ricky Gervaise said it was. OK, well at least you can say the neck tie is decorative. The same can't be said for the koshiita unless you can get them with sumptuous embroidery. Well, my own theory (FWIW, and should be taken with a grain of salt) is that the koshiita was developed to press the kimono to the small of the back, and prevent it from riding up and billowing over the obi/hakama over the course of daily movement. People of the time when hakama were daily wear would often keep things in their sleeves and in the folds of their kimono. The koshiita would prevent things from getting all the way to the back, and messing up one's appearance. See Kikuchiyo fumbling for his lineage scroll in "Seven Samurai".
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