日本へ

[snarp]

Time and money permitting, I am probably going to Japan for my friend Mo's wedding in April. (She hadn't even met this guy last time I talked to her in person; these are the perils of living an ocean away from somebody.) She has informed me on no uncertain terms that I cannot show up at this particular formal event in khakis and a button-down shirt; I probably need to get a dress of some description. I have not owned one since, I think, grade school? I no longer have the intense philosophical objections to such garments that I did in high school, but this is still going to be kind of a project. I have been looking at this site.

Also time and money permitting, I'd like to travel for a week either before or after. I'd really like to go to Kyoto, but would need to figure out some way to do it at least semi-cheaply.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I highly support your dress shop choice.

Also: cheaply in Kyoto -- hosteling?

[snarp]

Seems like the only option! (Hostels, I mean, not Modcloth. eBay is also a possibility.)

[jinian]

Did she say you couldn't wear a tux? Modcloth's wonderful, though a LOT of the dresses aren't available big enough for me, and I only wear a 14.

I liked the Kyoto Tour Club.

[szzzt]

Ryokan are often surprisingly affordable. (I guess more so if you have lots of people. You can put them all in the same room by covering every inch of floorspace with futons.)

Re: travel costs--there is, or at least used to be, some sort of time-limited train travel pass that you could only get from outside Japan. It was a really good deal if you planned on traveling around.