This is a Yukatta...a cotton summer kimono and my favorite thing to wear year around about the house. Everyone wears these when not dressed for work during the summers, which are hot and humid. A round paper fan, like a "gimme" fan with advertizing on it is required with this outfit. You'd just sweat too much without the fan. How it is done.... I cut out three strips of 1 1/2 inch wide cloth. Two of which are 10 inches long, that will comprise the left front and back and the right front and back. Avoiding having a shoulder seam that way. The sleeves are what was cut off of the end of those stips and folded in half, I didn't really measure, just sort of eyeballed them. The third strip was cut in half width wise and then that bit was cut length wise, then cut at an angle at the top, those are your overlap bits in the front. What was left over was cut length wise and seam allowance ironed in for the long running collar. What you do with the angled bits you cut off is line the back of the neck area when you sew on the collar, that soaks up the sweat and gives the Yukatta a bit more strength at the most stressed point on the garment. A long narrow sash of matching material is what you tie this up with. Don't know if you can get it to scale, that is a narrow sash. Flip flops, or Zori, as we call them is the foot ware that goes with this. Sitting on the mountain resort varanda down wind from some mosquito repellant inscent smoke, in the cooling evening, is the most traditional image I can come up with for this Kimono. A pot of tea and a cup and a little munch would be nice too.
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