Tabi

Tabi

These women wear Tabi socks and zori sandals.

Tabi are traditional Japanese socks. The sock is divided at the toes that forms them into two groups. Tabi socks are worn with zori or geta sandals. The Tabi is of many different colours mainly white.

Tabi Media

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  Tabi being worn with geta.

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  Cotton-paper tabi, 1700s

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  Cloth tabi with ties, early 1900s

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  Modern tabi with kohaze hook-and-loop fasteners

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  Knitted stretch-on tabi, no fasteners

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  Sheer tabi

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  Woven tabi

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  Close-up of kohaze

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  行田足袋で使用される「おさえ」工程専用のミシン