Comments on: Where Do You Wear Your Gi?

By: Whatever

Whatever — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 20:41:32 +0000

You people can make whatever justification that makes you feel better, but this is just you wanting to show off. It’s cocky and stupid. I can certainly understand having to stop somewhere after and not having time to change, but I fail to understand why you would keep the jacket on… No doubt, if all you have on is underwear on your pants you of course keep them on, but keeping the jacket it on is pure cock. Like you seriously have no shirt… lol you just made excuses for yourself, total unchecked pride.

By: kHa

kHa — Thu, 13 May 2010 15:39:23 +0000

funny like Stephanie, i just wore my gi in public yesterday and read this post. i didn’t want to change at the gym and decided to drive quickly back home. but stopped at the grocery store to pickup some bananas and milk. well i could go in with my gi pants and t-shirt but decided to wear jacket also. (new fuji blue is shiny) anyway, it felt normal and nobody seems bother. next step is bigger supermarket.

By: Meerkatsu

Meerkatsu — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 17:59:30 +0000

HAHA yes I get dressed before class and have popped into shops etc on the way before/after class, but being winter my top half is usually covered with a winter coat. But my highly patched trousers do get some odd stares.
But why be shy everyone? Let’s all wear our kimonos in public with pride!!

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 02:21:44 +0000

Funny. I just had a conversation after class about this topic.

We only have one bathroom at our school, so there is always a line to change…so long sometimes I miss the beginning of the warm up waiting to change into my gi.

Yesterday, while I was waiting to change, someone said “Why don’t you just wear your gi to class?”

Uhh… Duh.

It never even occurred to me that I should leave my house in my gi…and when I started thinking about why I didn’t wear it to class, I thought about having to wear it home, and we normally stop and grab a bite to eat after class.

I have yet to do it, but I think I might start wearing my gi out. My gi pants are blue and black and both of those could almost pass as actual pants.

Fun post. =)

By: georgette

georgette — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 04:15:58 +0000

First I started doing as you described, wearing it into the grocery store on the way home. (Have yet to get any comments, though I also rock the unusual colors. And usually look like I was just dragged through a hedge backwards.)

Then, I actually wore it out to eat after class. Yeah, I was sweaty, but not stinky, and I live too far away to go home first. If I’d planned ahead I could have showered at the school. I just threw on a dry tshirt over my gi pants and no one said anything.

Since then I have worn gi pants at least (with a sweatshirt or tshirt) into various stores, my office, restaurants of varying formality from casual outdoor cafes to nicey-nice European places (albeit that one was to grab a late-night dessert, and the chef is a friend and fellow jitsuka.)