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Yubaru
I feel sorry for these young women, as it is truly a huge deal for most of them, and many spend hundreds of thousands of yen on their kimono's , hair, and makeup.
sensei258
Class action lawsuit
Jonathan Prin
I don't understand. Do they get their kimonos on that day only ? Not wise to do so...
I would try before and keep it at home and do with friends all the preparation.
I hope they all made it because they are all beautiful and excited on that day. Loving it. !
Speed
@ Jonathan Prin: Many kimono rental shops hold on to the kimonos and have the women come in on the morning of the ceremony to help them put them on and set their hair since it's difficult and time consuming.
Often, when the girls go in to pay and rent the kimonos they don't take them home since they can't put them on themselves anyway and its much more convenient to leave them there until the morning of the ceremony.
Unfortunately, for these girls they were jacked. Perhaps, the owner ran off the with money?
Maria
Good for them. They realised the company has probably gone down, but did the right thing.
What a shame the employees of the other three didn't feel able to do the same, but their panic and indecisiveness is understandable.
Bill Lewis
We bought a kimono for our daughter. We just felt that as she gets older she will have many opportunities to wear it as her friends get married and she will want to dress up for the wedding and reception. Cheaper than renting one each time. We have a very dependable beauty salon that has taken care of my wife and daughters every time they have had occasion to wear a kimono.
papigiulio
The girls in this story thought they had a very dependable salon as well. Not everyone can afford a kimono.
clamenza
JP points out a faulty and inefficient standard of doing business that cost hundreds of young women money and a once in a lifetime experience.
And somehow its negative and unproductive.
Andy
What exactly did they think calling the police would do? It didn't help the Mt. Gox suckers.
Disillusioned
What's with all the secrecy about the company? Surely someone knows what's going on. Has the owner done a NOVA and shot through to the Canary Islands with the cash?
It's difficult to understand how they can justify charging ¥150,000 for a one-day rental of a kimono.
wtfjapan
It's difficult to understand how they can justify charging ¥150,000 for a one-day rental of a kimono. because high quality Japan
Laguna
Wow. My daughter had her ceremony last year, and we entrusted all to a local (trusted) firm. If this had happened, my wife would have ensured I make a stance to the effect of "hell to pay."
kohakuebisu
Just saying, but the president would have fully known the effect of the business going belly up just before the Coming of Age ceremony.
Like travel agents who continue to take bookings until the bailiffs show up, what a swine.
Madden
This reminds me what happened with Tellmeclub travel agency which just suddenly went out of business as well, I think there were cases of customers just stranded with none of their reservations in place. Whatever happened to that anyway, I never saw any kind of update to the customers who were swindled.
smithinjapan
You don't help people "wear" kimono, you help them "put on" kimono. Anyway, I feel very sorry for these young ladies (not sure why they're being called "girls" by some of the posters since they are women), and while I'm sure they are getting support, I hope they still get to have their day at some point. There are more than enough of them that got screwed here, they can have a big party with hundreds of people. Won't be quite the same, but it'll be equally, if not more, special.
Disillusioned
Material costs? They are renting them for a day, not buying them. Labor is about an hour to put them on an another hour or so to do hair and make up. How can one-day rental work out to ¥150,000? It's a blatant rip off!
Strangerland
If it was a rip off, people wouldn’t rent them.
DNALeri
To help them "wear"? Maybe "put on"?
Jalapeno
Buy a zip up kimono, a bee-hive wig, and a white rabbit for your collar, and you're set. No need to spend hundreds of thousands on a one-day thing, where you may get ripped off.
papigiulio
Thanks for educating the uneducated, educator60. That price does seem fair in hindsight.
ebisen
No Japanese that knows his/her own culture would consider this a rip-off. Hiring professional kimono dressers was always a luxury. I bet most complains come from know nothing foreigners...
mmwkdw
Wouldn't be surprised if Next Year it'll be AR Kimono's