Meanwhile in Japan: Fats vs Men in Women Kimonos No pics, no greentext, just a quick vignette that bearded fit men are hotter than fat women in kimonos. I live in Japan. In major olde-timey cultural hubs like Kamakura and Kyoto, there are shops where they rent you kimonos (you = tourist, be it native Japanese or foreigner who didn't bring or couldn't afford a kimono). You put on a kimon and walk around the city. It's a common thing for even Japanese young women to do, since it's not too unusual for modern people to dress up in old clothes in older towns. It's a feeling/image that's less like "Cosplay" and more like "Prom", if that makes sense. Plus, since they cater more to Japanese tourists, the kimonos are human sized in most places. But to keep up with foreign money, there's maybe 1-2 places per city these days that rents out kimono-tarps to fat white/Chinese/Malaysian/half-asian people. The quality is staggeringly bad: A real layered kimono of "pretty decent" quality and not tailored would run around $2000 USD. So these tarps are mostly polyester and other artificial cloths spun together to fit women suffering from poor life choices gunetiks. They are barely a step above "a kimono bathrobe" you can get for $50 at a Pier One Imports or something. Queue a recent trip to Kamakura, one of my favorite places on this planet: Zen temples and gardens, beaches, glorious ancient forest mountain hiking, textile shops, and so much walking that fats are almost - Almost - nonexistent.  A Brazilian friend of mine - a mostly straight (though a little bendy/genderfluid) man, with a physique where he looks like he could model underwear (but with some hipster trappings; a well kept beard etc) rented a kimono. Not a man kimono: Men kimonos are a real thing (Google Image search for "men kimono" for a variety of common and "wedding-level" kimono that men can and do wear), but he specifically went the genderfluid route and went for the women's kimono. Decked out in all the women accouterments. The rental place has been seeing this kind of thing lately, so there was no "...wut?" or eyerolling, etc. They simply double-checked, then decked him out. He walked around town. His friend took pics. CUT TO... Apparently there is a place selling kimono-tarps in Kamakura. I ran across three squat 100kg+ trolls tee-heeing in English (one white, two asian but with N American accents) while:  * Carrying ice creams  * Squealing about how delicious other street vendor sweets looked, "We MUST come back here!" etc   * Sweating on a cool spring day like they were running a marathon, while simply oompa-loompa-ing slowly down a small shopping street  * Three of them in a slow Fat Phalanx blocking other tourists from getting past them, oblivious to the fact that two of them shoulder to shoulder = 4 humans. A flabby, cheap-kimono wearing flesh wall. I was queued up behind them, finally finding an in and tokyo drifting past them when there was a lull in the crowd. They were getting some major side-eye from human passersby (sadly the comments I was hearing by younger folks passing them just out of earshot wasn't "woah, look at those fats in kimonos", but "woah, look at those FOREIGNERS in kimonos". Maybe they were being nice, but yeah pretty much "foreigner == fatty" these days) CUT BACK TO... I'm straight. My bro ROCKED that kimono. No lie, I would have no hesitation being seen by passersby as I hit on my bearded model-physique kimono-wearing friend. I would not accept $100 USD to do fake-hitting on the phalanx of fats in kimonos, even if I was allowed to roll my eyes the whole time.