Yukata shopping

Lucinda was on vacation this week, so we hung out together while Arno was in school. Here's a report on our adventures on Monday, shopping day:

First Lucinda wanted to buy a "yukata," a cotton kimono, so we went to the Oriental Bazaar store on Omotesando (the major fashion street).



The store is tacky compared to neighbors like Bulgari, Ralph Lauren and Louis Vuitton, but it's an easy place to buy reasonably priced, decent-looking Japanese pottery, toys, chopsticks and kimonos.

A saleslady helped us find the proper size (Lucinda is 5 but her yukata would fit a Japanese 7-year-old) and we learned how to tie the sash. The sandals weren't very comfortable.




We brought home a pink one that I'm sure will turn up in a later post.