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Fundoshi are often worn with a hanten or happi (a short cotton jacket with straight sleeves) during summer festivals by men and women who carry mikoshi (portable shrines) in Shinto processions. Outside Japan it is perhaps best known from the drumming groups Ondekoza and Kodo , who appear dressed in only a white fundoshi and a headband.
Some of the culturally diverse Amazonian indigenous still wear an ancestral type of loincloth. [citation needed] Until World War II, Japanese men wore a loincloth known as a fundoshi. [3] The fundoshi is a 35-centimetre-wide (14 in) piece of fabric (cotton or silk) passed between the thighs and secured to cover the genitals. [citation needed]
Nemaki are commonly given as guest clothing at inns, and are worn as sleepwear. Netsuke (根付/根付け) An ornament worn suspended from the men's obi, serving as a cordlock or a counterweight. (See also inro and ojime). Similar to yaopei (腰佩, lit. ' waist wear '), worn in hanfu wear (see also yupei, norigae and lào zi).
The kaupinam, kovanam, kaupina, langot, or lungooty is a loincloth worn by men in the Indian subcontinent as underclothing. It is still commonly worn in South Asia by pehlwans (wrestlers) while exercising or sparring in a dangal. It is basically a rectangular strip of cloth used to cover the genitals, with strings connected to the four ends of ...
A Hadaka Matsuri (裸祭り, 'Naked Festival') is a type of Japanese festival, or matsuri, in which participants wear a minimum amount of clothing; usually just a fundoshi loincloth, sometimes with a short happi coat, and rarely completely naked. Naked festivals are held in dozens of places throughout Japan every year, usually in the summer or ...
The shape of the hanten bears a resemblance to a noragi, a traditional patchwork jacket, and the haori, and is worn by both men and women. The facing and lining are padded with thick layers of wadded cotton for warmth. The collar is usually made of black sateen. Hanten often display a family crest or other designs.
It was during this period that, due to various edicts on dress mandated by the ruling classes, merchant-class Japanese men began to wear haori with plain external designs and lavishly-decorated linings, a trend still seen in men's haori today. [1] During the early 1800s, geisha in the hanamachi of Fukagawa, Tokyo began to wear haori over their ...
It should be noted that fundoshi aren't often worn any more anyway. Some men do wear them under kimono/yukata, and others have created a sexual fetish around them, but these days they're worn most often at festivals. Exploding Boy 16:55, 23 April 2009 (UTC)