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Maybe related: [Attire for a Japanese fireworks festival: Why does Miyuki
(Shirogane) REALLY attend in school
uniform?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/66655/attire-for-a-
japanese-fireworks-festival-why-does-miyuki-shirogane-really-att)

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In the s2 finale, Takao, Nakai and Nishikata don't wear yukata's while their
dates / companions (resp Kimura, Mano and Takagi) do. **What's up with this?
Is it something specific to this series? Or in Japanese culture in general are
girls more likely than boys to dress up?**

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/GKfTh.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/GKfTh.jpg)

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/cZ9Ca.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/cZ9Ca.jpg)

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/eiQG5.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/eiQG5.jpg)

We can see this trend continue when Nishikata observes other couples / pairs:

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/eGM0K.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/eGM0K.jpg)

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/rbrcm.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/rbrcm.jpg)

Hamaguchi (with Houjou) is an exception though. Good for Hamaguchi:

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/CO5vT.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/CO5vT.jpg)

Kimura (with Takao) is an exception too.


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Attire for a Japanese summer festival: Why don't the boys dress up for the summer festival while their dates do?


> in Japanese culture in general are girls more likely than boys to dress up?

Yes. Girls just like dressing up pretty more than boys. I guess it is
universal.

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A quick search gave the
[following](https://media.hikkoshizamurai.jp/press/yukata/).

It shows the answer to question 'Do you have yukata?'. Only 23% of men(男性)
have it while 66% of women(女性) have yukata.

[![enter image description
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This is just personal opinion, but generally Japanese traditional wear
(kimono, yukata) are less convenient than Western clothes. It is less
comfortable to move in, harder to wash, usually more expensive. So men, who
generally care less about attire, don't bother to wear them, except perhaps in
traditional Japanese inns ( _ryokan_ ), where yukata's are provided as a kind
of bath robe.


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Part of it is historical. In the Shogun era, merchants began to get rich, and
their conspicuous consumption caused the aristocrats to write draconian
[sumptuary laws](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumptuary_law) that stated what
commoners couldn't wear. They didn't worry about women so much, but men's
garments became very plain. Also the merchants decided that if they displayed
too much wealth in public they were likely to be robbed by samurai. So men's
yukata and kimono have been pretty dull ever since- commonly indigo. Also, it
seems like guys don't like to call attention to themselves, so they're less
likely to dress up. Most modern yukata and kimono for men are dull as
dishwater. The exception is the juban, which is an under-kimono, which
wouldn't be seen in public. Those often feature [hand-painted
artwork](http://www.marlamallett.com/K-7881B-Juban.jpg), often signed.


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