The Blade (Style section) 2021-12-05 Dressed to impress "Traeonna, owner of Kimono Kitsune, an educational and dressing service, poses in kimono."

Dressed to Impress – The Blade

Our owner was interviewed by our local newspaper, The Blade. The article was both in print in the Arts section as well as on the website (ToledoBlade.com) on December 5, 2021.

The Blade 2021-12-05 Article "Dressed to impress: Japanese kimono aren't foreign to students of the art form in northwest Ohio"

To view the full article, click on images below for PDF or link to newspaper website.

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A few corrections and clarifications to the article (Traeonna didn’t see it before print so she had no way to correct things):

  • komon (not kimon) and mofuku (not mofuko)
  • The kimono lessons for the club up in Detroit was not recent (at the time of the article) and due to the pandemic had not happened yet.
  • Traeonna is not sure if she can be considered one of Billy’s first apprentices, but at the time of the article, she had been studying with Billy for about 1 year 7 months.
  • Traeonna did not dress 50 people in 90 minutes, but there were around 50 people who attended her 90-minute presentation for the Japanese Student Association at the University of Toledo and she dressed or helped dress at least half of them.

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