Editing Kimono (section)

==== <span class="anchor" id="Yukata"></span> {{transliteration|ja|Yukata}} ====
{{main|Yukata}}
[[File:Dragonflies yukata.png|thumb|left|A woman and a young boy wearing {{transliteration|ja|yukata}} decorated with spider chrysanthemums and dragonflies respectively]]

{{Nihongo||[[wikt:浴衣|浴衣]]|[[Yukata]]}} are casual cotton summer kimono worn by both men and women. {{transliteration|ja|Yukata}} were originally very simple indigo and white cotton kimono, little more than a bathrobe worn either within the house, or for a short walk locally; {{transliteration|ja|yukata}} were also worn by guests at inns, with the design of the {{transliteration|ja|yukata}} displaying the inn a person was staying at. From roughly the mid-1980s onwards, they began to be produced in a wider variety of colours and designs, responding to demand for a more casual kimono that could be worn to a summer festival, and have since become more formal than their previous status as bathrobes, with high-end, less colourful {{transliteration|ja|yukata}} sometimes standing in place of {{transliteration|ja|komon}}.

In the present day, many {{transliteration|ja|yukata}} are brightly coloured, featuring large motifs from a variety of different seasons. For women, they are worn with either a {{transliteration|ja|hanhaba obi}} (half-width {{transliteration|ja|obi}}) or a {{transliteration|ja|heko obi}} (a soft, sash-like {{transliteration|ja|obi}}), and are often accessorised with colourful hair accessories. For men, {{transliteration|ja|yukata}} are worn with either an informal {{transliteration|ja|kaku obi}} or a {{transliteration|ja|heko obi}}. Children generally wear a {{transliteration|ja|heko obi}} with {{transliteration|ja|yukata}}.

{{transliteration|ja|Yukata}} are always unlined, and it is possible for women to wear a casual {{transliteration|ja|nagoya obi}} with a high-end, more subdued {{transliteration|ja|yukata}}, often with a {{transliteration|ja|juban}} underneath. A high-end men's {{transliteration|ja|yukata}} could also be dressed up in the same way.

A {{transliteration|ja|yukata}} is traditionally worn as a single layer or over a {{transliteration|ja|hadajuban}} (an underkimono worn underneath the {{transliteration|ja|nagajuban}}, featuring a simplified construction). {{transliteration|ja|Yukata}} may also be worn over the top of a t-shirt and shorts. This distinguishes {{transliteration|ja|yukata}} from a more-formal {{transliteration|ja|komon}} kimono, where a {{transliteration|ja|nagajuban}} (also simply referred to as a {{transliteration|ja|juban}}, an underkimono resembling) is worn underneath, showing a second layer of collar at the neckline. However, some modern {{transliteration|ja|yukata}} are worn with collared cotton {{transliteration|ja|juban}} featuring a collar of linen, cotton or {{transliteration|ja|ro}}, for occasions such as informal eating-out.<ref name=mochi_juban/><ref name=mochi_komon/>