Japanese style clothes, JINBEI

When summer comes, I want to make Jinbei.
Jinbei is casual clothes that have been worn in summer since long time ago.
They are easy to wear and so cool in summer.
Especially in wet, humid, hot Japanese summer.
Canadian summer is cool and dry already, but still nice to wear Jinbei on a hot day like yesterday.
My kids always wear Jinbei as their pajamas.
You can go out wearing Jinbei of course.

I made only Jinbei tops because I wanted you to wear them outside with your favorite bottoms.
As I thought wearing Jinbei tops and bottoms at the same time make them look more pajama-ish..

Anyway, here are a couple of Jimbei I made.
I coordinated them with one of my Monkey Pants.
Aren't they cute?
I put yo-yo and pom-pom trims on pockets so they look more like outside wear.

Believe me, your children won't be able to stop wearing Jinbei as well as Monkey Pants since they are too comfy.

Tops

I was thinking about making some tops for the monkey pants.
Monkey pants got a lot of compliments from customers at the last Handmade Mafia show, so I thought it would be more fun if you can coordinate and buy matching tops and monkey pants.

Here are some samples I made.
Girls puffed sleeve t-shirt.

This cow pattern look so cute with green dotted fabric, do you think so too?
Pattern on pattern looks so much fun, unique, and one of a kind.
I can't make the same ones because my fabric stock is so limited and I don't usually get a hole bunch of one kind of fabric.
Aaaand, they are imported from Japan!
So it's truly one of a kind.
As for the Japanese fabrics, first, the pattern is so cute and second, the quality is really good and last, they are just so different and unique especially in Canada.
At the same time, I have a lot of fun making those as every time it's different!

Size varies from about 6months-3yrs for the monkey pants, and 1-7yrs for the tops.
This is what I am thinking to do now.
And if time allows, I want to make some hats and accessories for kids and mama.

Stay tuned, I made some cool pants and tops for boys too :)