Pardon me while I create an anachronism.

[gurdymonkey]

Score! Stone Mountain and Daughter had some nice thick plain white flannel for $4.50/yard. The Japanese certainly did not have white cotton flannel in our period, but dammit, I will have WARM tabi for Estrella. They also had some wonderful Asian/Japanese cotton prints, which are a bit expensive, but I got one yard of a lavender dragonfly print that will also be cute for tabi. While I haven't found evidence one way or another for patterned tabi for women, I see them (usually indigo, sometimes other colors) on men, particularly samurai.
I virtuously did NOT buy anything else.

And I FINALLY met the new tenant downstairs when I went out this morning. He was headed for the laundry closet - I hesitate to call it a laundry room. Steve seems nice. Says he travels a lot, which is why we hadn't bumped into each other before.

Comments

[mamapduck.livejournal.com]

One person doing something dumb and misinterpreting information is not a reason to throw out educated guesses. Educated guesses are an important part of recreation and while they should be labelled as such in documentation, they are very different from someone deciding that she is the Japanese Scarlett O'Hara and parading around in drapes.

[gurdymonkey.livejournal.com]

Of course. It's just the ol' Makiwara effect. ;-D