Japanese Students Learn the Art of Kimono Dressing

As part of our unit on “Describing People”, Year 9 Japanese students participated in a Kimono Cultural Experience, led by Ms Rachel McAllister. 

Ms McAllister generously shared her collection of vintage kimonos and showed students a very ornate Japanese wedding kimono with gold brocade and a traditional motif design. Students were very interested to see the multiple layers, footwear and split-toe “socks” that are worn with kimonos. Two students were then chosen to model the women’s and men’s wedding kimonos. Then the rest of the class chose a kimono and obi (belt) each and had a turn at dressing themselves. 

At the end of the session, Ms McAllister gave each student a kami fuusen (paper balloon) as a memento of our cultural immersion. Please check out the photo gallery to see the spectacular transformation of our students. 

Student comments:

"Today was a great experience. It was good fun."

"This was good fun."

"It was interesting."

"Thank you. It was amazing!"

"It was really enjoyable."

"It was very awesome. Thanks for the origami balloons."

"It was fun to change it up. It was very interesting."

"I loved the colours and the origami balloons."

"I loved being a bride. It was a lot of fun."

"It was really interesting and a welcome break from traditional learning."

"It was really good."

Mrs Liz Blanks

Assistant Head of LOTE