Clothing shop for rikishi

[Rocks 1,807]

I bet @John Gunning has been there.

[Orion 431]

On 2017年4月27日 at 04:24, Rocks said:

I bet @John Gunning has been there.

So have I -- and not many years ago. One of the NHK staff draped a Konishiki-sized jacket over me -- and I just disappeared! 

Orion

[Kuroyama 715]

I wonder if it's a good place for 185cm-tall Westerners to find kimono that actually fit?

[Orion 431]

6 hours ago, Kuroyama said:

I wonder if it's a good place for 185cm-tall Westerners to find kimono that actually fit?

Across the road, catty-corner, there's a small shop selling Japanese footwear that includes big sizes and in particular, items that are comparatively narrow in relation to their length, a feature of many foreign feet. Many many moons ago I featured it in an article on all Japanese footwear, including an interview with the owner . 

Orion

[orandashoho 720]

No chance to find fitting shoes in Japan then, if Japanese feet are narrower in relation to their length. I need quite the reverse.I have to go to shops like "the six toes" because my toes need space and always burst out of my shoes. I have small but wide feet, it is a horror to go shopping for footwear because nothing fits. When I finally find something that fits and is affordable, I buy several pairs, always later regretting I didn't buy more.

 

[Otokonoyama 2,735]

4 hours ago, orandashoho said:

No chance to find fitting shoes in Japan then, if Japanese feet are narrower in relation to their length. I need quite the reverse.I have to go to shops like "the six toes" because my toes need space and always burst out of my shoes. I have small but wide feet, it is a horror to go shopping for footwear because nothing fits. When I finally find something that fits and is affordable, I buy several pairs, always later regretting I didn't buy more.

 

You should be fine with Japanese footwear.  Wide fitting shoes are standard - the shop Orion describes is a specialty store with relatively hard-to-find (in Japan) narrow width shoes.  D width are often special order here, and 4E very common.

[orandashoho 720]

1 hour ago, Otokonoyama said:

D width are often special order here, and 4E very common.

I am not familiar with Japanese shoe sizes, but you are giving me hope. :)

[Benihana 1,901]

19 hours ago, Kuroyama said:

I wonder if it's a good place for 185cm-tall Westerners to find kimono that actually fit?

Well, if they sell kimono and yukata to sumotori, i'm pretty sure they have something fitting for you.

[Kuroyama 715]

12 hours ago, orandashoho said:

No chance to find fitting shoes in Japan then, if Japanese feet are narrower in relation to their length. I need quite the reverse.I have to go to shops like "the six toes" because my toes need space and always burst out of my shoes. I have small but wide feet, it is a horror to go shopping for footwear because nothing fits. When I finally find something that fits and is affordable, I buy several pairs, always later regretting I didn't buy more.

At a guess, "foreign" in Orion's post was in relation to Japan, not us. In other words, it's non-Japanese feet that tend to be wider in relation to their length. Which means Japanese footwear is more likely to fit you.

2 hours ago, Benihana said:

Well, if they sell kimono and yukata to sumotori, i'm pretty sure they have something fitting for you.

Maybe, but I'm much more cylindrical than most sumotori.

Edited April 30, 2017 by Kuroyama

[Akinomaki 39,786]

14 hours ago, Otokonoyama said:

You should be fine with Japanese footwear.  Wide fitting shoes are standard - the shop Orion describes is a specialty store with relatively hard-to-find (in Japan) narrow width shoes.  D width are often special order here, and 4E very common.

Very much so. In Japan I found for the first time satisfying light business slipper shoes for me - in some of the normal department stores, but especially in the stores below the agric/fish/trade ministries, at least 20 years ago open to the public. My feet are very short for my height (188cm), which means they are too broad for standard European shoes. I have 43.5-44/ US 9.5-10 = 26.5-27cm, which are still normal Japanese sizes, and even the 4E I need(ed) was available in a wide variety at the stores inside Takashimaya or the norinsuisan-/tsusansho basements. Now I'd need 5E though.

Edited April 30, 2017 by Akinomaki

[I am the Yokozuna 186]

On 2017/4/29 at 06:08, Kuroyama said:

I wonder if it's a good place for 185cm-tall Westerners to find kimono that actually fit?

Japanese men are quite tall and most mid aged men have quite a beer belly. I would say that the only issue is that if you have broad shoulders. Then you are truly f...

 

4 minutes ago, Akinomaki said:

Very much so. In Japan I found for the first time satisfying light business slipper shoes for me - in some of the normal department stores, but especially in the stores below the agric/fish/trade ministry, at least 20 years ago open to the public. My feet are very short for my height (188cm), which means they are too broad for standard European shoes. I have 43.5-44/ US 9.5-10 = 26.5-27cm, which are still normal Japanese sizes, and even the 4E I need(ed) was available in a wide variety at the stores inside Takashimaya or the norintsusansho. Now I'd need 5E though.

EU 44 is US 11 and JP 29. You deduct 2 from the US size and add 20 to get your JP shoes size. If you are 27 in JP size you are a solid 42 Eu size. 

[Akinomaki 39,786]

3 minutes ago, I am the Yokozuna said:

EU 44 is US 11 and JP 29. You deduct 2 from the US size and add 20 to get your JP shoes size. If you are 27 in JP size you are a solid 42 Eu size. 

43.5-44 is the German size, and the sneakers I now use are US size 10=44 - to cope with more than 3 systems for shoe sizes is impossible for me.

[Kuroyama 715]

13 hours ago, I am the Yokozuna said:

You deduct 2 from the US size and add 20 to get your JP shoes size.

Or just add 18...