The mind of a sewer.

Brian Christiansen · 2008-05-22T16:17:22+00:00

I wore my new hakama to kendo class last night, and my kendo sensei thought it was just the ginchiest. Our "normal" uniform, however is a dark blue hakama with a dark blue kimono. At lest pretty close to that.My "normal" hakama is made from denim, that I made a few months ago, the kind like you would make jeans from. My sensei's is a fairly heavy dark blue material, but I don't think it is denim, and the other student's hakamas are purchased ones that are black, but much lighter weight than either mine or sensei's.The keikogi, or kimono, that I made, is a lighter weight, but the same color as my hakama. The rest of the class uses a keikogi that is made of dark blue double weave material. It is much like a judo gi, if anyone is familiar with that.Well, anyway, our standard uniform is "dark", sort of like this: I was changing into my new white hakama, though one of the other stuents that was in the changing room at the time said something like "Oh, that is a hakama, I could not figure out what it was at first, did you make that one too," to which I replied some thing like "yes, of course." He knew that I made my "standard," dark one as well.He then said some thing like, why didn't you make it dark like our standard uniform. I replied "what would be the point of that, I already have a 'dark' one."A few weeks back, when I was changing into my standard, "dark", uniform, another student discussed how much money I might have saved. I might have, especially for a heavyweight, high-quality hakama like I made.Well, I didn't make either uniform because I needed one, it would be much easier and faster to simply purchase one: didn't make one to save money, either, though I might have. The heavyweight uniforms on the page I just referenced are over $100, with at some of them probably over $200 when shipping is added in. I think that the first one I made was probably about $60 ($20 for the pattern, $40 for the material-4 yds * 10/yd), add in the price of the keikogi,...

May 22, 2008 20 Replies

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Kay Ahr 18 years ago

I've been accused of having my mind in the gutter before, but not in the sewer.

The sewer was what we climbed down into to get the ball when we when we played streetball and had a lousy "outfielder."

:-) (Even my sense of humor is behind in life!)

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