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Originally Posted by Billi
What do the women wear on their backs? Are these pillows?
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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
They are the Kimono equivalent of a 'bow!' The way that the wide 'obi' (belt) was secured in the old days. Just folded stiff cloth. Today it is rather more just traditional, like a man's tuxedo cummerbund being his belt.
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Maybe they were pillows, once upon a time, when their duties were "wider reaching"...
Glass of water.