gurdymonkey | Pardon me while I create an anachronism.

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.