A haori (羽織) is a light, hip- or thigh-length jacket worn by both men and women with kimono. Haori resemble the upper portion of a kimono, but the collar is worn folded at the back, and the front portions do not cross but are held together with a haori-himo. 

This is a vintage haori, but still has the stitches in it that indicate it is never been worn. It is made of a crisp high-quality silk that is fully dyed using the shibori technique, with black dye on white silk. The pattern is somewhat abstract and modern, with sweeping bright red designs on the body. A red design is dyed in the black silk, starting at the shoulder and then continuing unbroken through the sleeves and the body. The haori-himo that ties the two front panels together is made of cream silk in an intricate hand-tied design. It is the lining of this haori that surprises me the most of all. The lining is all white silk with a woven design. On the white silk is hand painted an intricate design of flowers in white and cream, subtle and beautiful. There is top-quality finishing and design work on both the inside in the outside of this haori, and it has a very modern feel to it.

Size:

• There are 73.5cm(28.9369inches) in length from the bottom of the neck to the hem.

• There are 64cm(25.1968inches) from the center of the back to the sleeve tip.

• The vertical sleeve 45cm(17.7165inches).

• The width is 63cm(24.8 inches)

Detailed Design and Technique Notes

Shibori is what we in the West know as tie-die but, as with so very many things, the Japanese textile artisans excel at it and their version is usually intricate, extremely precise, of great skill and very time consuming to create. In Japan it is considered a highly prized textile. Shibori garments are incredibly expensive and much revered. An elaborate, entirely shibori kimono can take a whole year to make and the cost is therefore exorbitant. One way many people can afford a shibori item is to have a shibori obiage, which is worn tied round the top of the obi. 
There are machine done shibori fabrics nowadays but it is easy to spot, especially as the dots it creates are very regular (it is still rather expensive, though), and one sometimes sees prints done to look like shibori but they are completely flat, without the creped texture that the real thing has.