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'''Kimono Fanservice''' comes in two types, which can and do overlap (Please note that straight fanservice, where the garment simply happens to be a kimono, but could just as well be a bathrobe or a shirt or any other garment, is simply [[Fan Service]].): |
'''Kimono Fanservice''' comes in two types, which can and do overlap (Please note that straight fanservice, where the garment simply happens to be a kimono, but could just as well be a bathrobe or a shirt or any other garment, is simply [[Fan Service]].): |
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;A, [[Costume Porn]] |
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Where the audience appreciates the garments themselves. Especially prevalent in period pieces. Can overlap with [[Awesome Anachronistic Apparel]]. |
:Where the audience appreciates the garments themselves. Especially prevalent in period pieces. Can overlap with [[Awesome Anachronistic Apparel]]. |
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;B, [[Pandering to the Base]], [[Fetish Fuel]] (with/or [[Downplayed Trope|mild]] [[Fan Service]]) |
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Where the audience appreciates getting to see their favourite bishoujo or bishie in this specific dress. Unlike in conventional [[Fan Service]], the amount of skin shown will be [[Downplayed Trope|very modest]]. Caters to such fanservice tropes as (supposed) [[Going Commando]], (hypothetical chance of) mixed [[Action Dress Rip]] and [[Show Some Leg]], and maybe [[Sarashi]]. Especially in the case of geishas, a specific sexual plus without its own trope yet is that the dress frames the nape of neck, which was ''the'' Japanese fixation on female body before Western fashions became dominant. |
:Where the audience appreciates getting to see their favourite bishoujo or bishie in this specific dress. Unlike in conventional [[Fan Service]], the amount of skin shown will be [[Downplayed Trope|very modest]]. Caters to such fanservice tropes as (supposed) [[Going Commando]], (hypothetical chance of) mixed [[Action Dress Rip]] and [[Show Some Leg]], and maybe [[Sarashi]]. Especially in the case of geishas, a specific sexual plus without its own trope yet is that the dress frames the nape of neck, which was ''the'' Japanese fixation on female body before Western fashions became dominant. |
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Due to its complexity and obscurity to modern (and non-Japanese) folks, it's also constant fodder for [[Did Not Do the Research]] -induced [[Unfortunate Implications]] (right flap over left means you are dead and soon buried) and [[Accidental Innuendo]] (in modern era costumes, obi tied in front means you are a ''working girl'' and need to be able to get it off on a short notice but in older period costume, this innuendo won't apply; and a million more). Kimono wearing in itself has suffered from [[Trope Decay]]; a single man can be blamed for today's tubular kimono fashion, its rigid rules, and the death of the more fluid style of pre-WWII times. As per [[Rule of Cool]], many of those rules get kicked out of the window in fiction, and heroines won't get accused for "abusing a national symbol" by a mob of angry aunties. |
Due to its complexity and obscurity to modern (and non-Japanese) folks, it's also constant fodder for [[Did Not Do the Research]] -induced [[Unfortunate Implications]] (right flap over left means you are dead and soon buried) and [[Accidental Innuendo]] (in modern era costumes, obi tied in front means you are a ''working girl'' and need to be able to get it off on a short notice but in older period costume, this innuendo won't apply; and a million more). Kimono wearing in itself has suffered from [[Trope Decay]]; a single man can be blamed for today's tubular kimono fashion, its rigid rules, and the death of the more fluid style of pre-WWII times. As per [[Rule of Cool]], many of those rules get kicked out of the window in fiction, and heroines won't get accused for "abusing a national symbol" by a mob of angry aunties. |
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== Anime & Manga == |
== Anime & Manga == |
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* Ichihara Yuuko from ''[[xxxHolic]]'' has [[Costume Porn|stunning ensembles]] [[Rule of Cool|breaking every conceivable rule of kimono propriety]], while remaining elegant and very stylish despite her... suggestive fashions. |
* Ichihara Yuuko from ''[[xxxHolic]]'' has [[Costume Porn|stunning ensembles]] [[Rule of Cool|breaking every conceivable rule of kimono propriety]], while remaining elegant and very stylish despite her... suggestive fashions. |
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