今日着物で国際交流協会の総会に行きました。風香のトランプの帯は合わせやすい。気に入った。終わったら、大館の新しいＪＵＳＣＯの和服屋さんに行った。セールの紬反物を見たら、着せてあげると言われて、やってもらった。私は結構こういう遊びが好きできもの販売人の話に慣れているけど、きもののことあまりわからない付き合ってくれた友達は店員さんの押し付けるような売り方をすごく嫌がりました。こわい思いさせて、ごめんね。やっぱり何人の店員に囲まれて、分割払いしたら買えられるでしょうと言われるのは嫌だし、失礼じゃないの？やめて欲しい。きものは慎重に選んで、考えてから買うものでしょう。押し付けられるからきものを買うのが嫌と思う人たくさんいると思います。気軽く、なにも買うつもりなく入れる店がいい。
Wore kimono to the KIS general meeting. Afterwards I went to Odate with Megumi (friend from work) and went to check out the kimono store at the new Jusco shopping center. It's big and has lots of nice stuff, including cute fashionable brand kimono stuff. I was looking at bolts of kimono on sale for 8,800 yen (super cheap) but when I asked how much it would cost to have it tailored too (to get the special price you have to get it made by their company) it was over 8-man. So basically, it's a scam. (I know you can sometimes get the bolt of cloth for 10,000 and have it done for 50,000 total.) Anyway, sales ladies offered to help us try on the kimono (they pin the cloth on you so you can get an idea of what it'd look like done) and I said sure cuz I like trying on kimono. It's like free entertainment. However, Megumi got surrounded by sales ladies telling here how great her's looked and how she could but it on installments for the next 2 or 3 years!!! It definitely freaked her out and I don't think she ever wants to go back in that store. Sigh. Kimono salespeople really are like used car salesmen. If they are good they treat you nice no matter what cuz they want to build up a relationship in case you ever decide you wanna buy that 200,000 yen kimono. (Free snacks and gifts at Sagami!) If they are bad they kiss ass and just try to pressure you into buying things. They should stop. I think a lot of people hate shopping for kimono because some saleslady (who often doesn't really know anything about kimono) immediately attaches herself to you. It's a big turn off to people who are "just looking." There needs to be more privacy in the dressing rooms too. Even though you are wearing all your clothes, you still have rolls of cloth hanging off of you and might not want to be seen by everyone you know like that... Once I had a purple houmongi hanging off of me at Itoku and the Kotsugai's walk by and Mr. Kotsugai starts making stupid conversation asking me if I like kimono.... duh, I think that's public since I wrote about it in my column in the town newsletter... and I couldn't move cuz of the fabric. Maybe I need to graduate from department store kimono counters to real kimono shops, but those are even more intimidating.
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