It has been semi-collectively decided that on this blog those who wish to do so will wear hakamas. These are unisex, and you can buy them here.
I cannot buy mine until April as I have already spent all my March clothing money and more. But I will let you know when I have it, and y’all do the same, y’heah?
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
Wow. Now everyone will live in fear of me.
Grand. My birthday is coming up…
well thanks! i now know what to tell everyone to get me for MY birthday! what a great idea…especially if we can get guys to wear them also..smile
I will — but I’m getting mine in cotton blend.
Where’s the cotton blend link?
and what to wear on top?
I haven’t found the cotton blend link yet. On top, I think some sort of tank top? Or a very well cut and well fit T-shirt?
Living in fear – that’s the idea. All too many people live in fear of me already, for no good reason at all (it’s because I know how to do too many things, and I know how things are done elsewhere, and it is not in just one other way but in several other ways, and all this is just frightening). That is the reason I like the idea of the jiu-jitsu outfit, it will give them something concrete to attach their fears to instead of fearing what should in my view be non-scary.
Well here are some alternatives
I’m not sure that this is a jujitsu outfit — it is used for swordplay — kendo and iaido, I think.
more specifically, here
Ai ai, I am *out* of it … of *course* it is for swordplay, I should know this if only from Kurosawa movies !!! Alternatives = excellent.
Well I would like something like this on top.
They will know us by our garb!
oof, cero,
y’all are in my head. only a week or so ago, i was searching ebay for formal hakamas. my mother told me she had gotten her father’s hakama (he was of samurai stock). but after she died, i looked through all her kimonos and couldn’t find it. so i’m in a semi search for them. but, not martial arts ones. *real* ones. you know, made of silk and stuff. anyway. if you’re already in my head, can you please tell me the end of the short story i’m writing right now?
kt
Oh, dear, ktshorb, now you’re making me want a *silk* hakama and I am liable to go on a semi-search for them, too.
At random: The story ends in a traditional Japanese house where the thin wood of the furniture is dark, and in some cases painted black. The tatami and walls are of course light, and the silks are in a mixture of white, peach, and red. The house sits on a small rise in the country, near the coast, and the March sun shines. As you stroll down the rise, the sea comes into view.