Wearable Poetry and Announcements

It's been a while.
This is sudden, but I wrote a poem. It's my first time, but I wrote it with all my heart. Please, take a moment to read it if you'd like.

That is all.
I used to read poetry like any editor who graduated from a literature department, and I loved reading books written by poets even more. I especially love Gozo Yoshimasu, and what I wrote this time is heavily influenced by him.

The reason I suddenly wrote a poem is because Shinji Hayashi of the Shibuya wine bar 'bar bossa,' whom I used to edit for at the media outlet 'cakes,' mentioned he was holding a 'Creative Flea Market.'

I thought I'd like to submit something too, so I challenged myself to write poetry, but that alone didn't feel interesting enough. So, I did this.

I cut fabric into the shapes of the letters of the poem I wrote,

Appliquéd them onto raw fabric,

Stitched them, sewed them,

And this is what happened. In other words, this is,

A skirt. I made a wearable poem!!

It's a wrap skirt. The main body of the skirt is about 100cm long, and the length is about 81cm. The model is my wife, and even at 171cm tall, she can wear it normally.

Even if you open your legs to a certain extent, the slit doesn't show.

The waist can be tied with a string.

It looks cute when paired with navy, creating a tricolor look.

The price is 10,000 yen. Honestly, this might be expensive for a flea market, but considering the cost of materials and labor, this is the limit. Seriously. Deciding to turn a poem into a skirt was my undoing; it just wouldn't progress. The workload was so high that I could only make a very small amount. I'm panicking even as I write this.

So, let's meet tomorrow from 12:00 at the 'Creative Flea Market' held at bar bossa in Shibuya! There will be many other exhibitors, so please come and visit!

February 23rd (Mon, Holiday) 12:00 - 16:00
Location: bar bossa
41-23 Udagawa-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0042, Dai-ni Okubo Building