With Coming-of-Age Day taking place Monday, the city of Kitakyushu has an important message for the attendees: Dress fittingly. The city says it is tired of seeing what has become a common occurrence at the annual event — new adults dressing inappropriately, spoiling the solemn atmosphere.
The new women meanwhile are starting to wear a looser-fitting style of kimono that exposes the shoulders in a way used by oiran, the high-class prostitutes of the Edo Period.
Fed up with the trends, the city has taken the unprecedented step of setting up a website to educate new year-olds on appropriate attire for the event. The website, launched last November, followed mounting complaints about inappropriate attire, Iida said. Groups of fledgling adults erupting into drunken frenzies and sabotaging the events have nearly become synonymous with TV coverage of the holiday in some parts of the nation.
But not all of them are that way. Instead, they show good sense by skipping the event altogether and meet up in a nearby park, he said. Click to enlarge. Sorry, but your browser needs Javascript to use this site.
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