Kimono and me

I went to Asakusa, a Tokyo district which has retained its traditional charm to date, I bought a lot of Japanese items, like good Japanese traditional folding fans, chopsticks , Japanese dolls etc. But one thing that captivated my imagination was a blue silky Japanese Kimono. I loved it so much that despite it being costly, it took me no more than a second to decide buying it. I bought one very good one for my mother. I did some gentle bargaining ( i am not good at that or not inters ted mostly).But it got me the Kimonos at around 10% less. Next we went to Asakusa temple . One interesting speciality is set of boxes in the temple wall where you can get your future. Mine came to be a good fortune. All good predictions should be believed, and I believed this one even more because the very next day and 2 days after , Japanese vending machines returned me more yens than they should.
Back to Kimono, so after buying it , we went to the Imperial palace. The palace is not majestic as I expected, or it might be because no one can actually see it except on 2-3 special occasions in a year. But the environs are kept well preserved. We got to see only the surrounding since the emperor and the family still live there unlike India's maharajas who have long left their palaces in favour of some foreign destinations. Inside the imperial palace gardens, I could not restrain myself and put on the Kimono and started posing.My friends clicked away the photos.But I noticed that there was a Japaese couple, a policeman and some Europeans there, who looked very interested and before i could know, they clicked some photos of me in that Kimono.

I asked my Japanese colleague next day whether people wear such Kimonos, he said drinking his green tea  that its quite unusual. Now I understand why those Japanese people found it necessary to take my photos. After all, you don't find a foreigner wearing a beautiful silky Kimono posing inside the Imperial palace everyday.