My daughter received her kimono from Kyoto and went to a kimono dressing lesson yesterday.

[Kablooie]

My wife and daughter were shocked to find out it will take a minimum of 8 lessons, 90 minutes each, to learn the basics of dressing in a kimono! Extra classes are available if she wants to learn more subtleties of kimono dressing.
Her teacher has an official Japanese diploma in kimono dressing.

I had no idea that kimono dressing was such a complex, official process.
Neither did my Japanese wife.

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This is from March when she was originally fitted for the kimono.
The tailor makes two trips to the US a year to fit Japanese women for kimonos.

[avebury]

1. Once your dear daughter is dressed in her new kimono

I hope you will update us with a picture.

I had no idea it was such a complex process. Kudos to your daughter for wanting to go through the class.

[bullimiami]

2. I've looked at it. Formal kimono is layers and layers. Very complex and elaborate.

[oregonjen]

3. Helping my daughter tie her obi for her yukata for our local Obon a couple of years ago

was an ordeal!! I think I did a pretty good job, thanks to YouTube! A kimono? My mother in law used to teach classes for that. It IS an ordeal! My husband is Japanese, so we’re a bicultural household, too.

[3catwoman3]

4. An involved process, indeed.

When I was stationed at Yokota Air Base while in the Air Force nurse corps, several of us from the base were invited to dance/march in tanabata festival. We were dressed by local women who knew what they were doing.

Blue and white kimono, and a red and silver obi. I still have all of it, except the sandals. This was back in 1979, and it all looks brand new, as it should, having been worn only once.