Feb 17, 2025
Entrance ceremony clothes
Soon my kid will have his entrance ceremony at school, and I'm looking for those typical Japanese style ceremony clothes for myself. I'm 1.80m, not so skinny woman, which has huge problems to even find normal clothes in Japan. Does anybody have the same problem and might have any advice, where to get those ceremony clothes in a taller size?
I´m a german girl living in the center of Tokyo, but my true love belongs to the countryside of Japan (especially Chiba and Hokkaido). I love traveling in Japan and explore hidden areas.
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on Feb 18
I think it depends on how picky you are. Nissen and Zozotown stock larger sizes for separates. An idea - a light-coloured tweed blazer or jacket with trousers. You get a lot of mix-and-match after - jacket with jeans and skirts for casual wear. I get some of my separates from Erina, Zara, BR, for workwear, semi-formal, and black formal.
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on Feb 19
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on Feb 19
@genkidesu IME, Zara stocks a wide range of sizes, so BlueButterfly may find something suitable that would accommodate her height. From my observation of entrance ceremonies at schools, women tend to wear separates - swingy skirts or roomy trousers with white or light-coloured blouses with jackets with or without lapels. You don't have to do black formal matchy.
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on Feb 20
@TonetoEdo I shop there on occasion and I've also found their size range to be pretty decent. I'm only 163cm so on the shorter side of things, but there have definitely been trousers I've tried on and would have needed them significantly hemmed -- so hopefully the taller ladies among us would find some success there. Even H&M might have some pieces that could be suitable, they have some workwear styles (blazers, trousers, etc.) at their stores and I find their sizing is more European.
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on Mar 2
Shimamura has affordable formal and office wear and they have a plus size section. If you can, pair any dressy items you have and those from the shops you already like to make an outfit. As mentioned you don't have to be super formal but I would avoid casual and colorful items. It's only a couple hours, right?
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on Mar 7
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on Nov 7
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