### id263564723 signaling status is expensive and can lead to wealth transfers > The Shogunate passed many laws regulating the dress of the lower classes in response, however, and one law was the forbidding of the dapple tie-dye technique (*kanoko shibori*) to members of the lower classes (namely merchants). The technique was incredibly labor-intensive, and thus *kanoko shibori kosode* were very expensive. Such an ostentatious show of wealth displeased the reigning samurai, who had to give up more and more of their wealth to these nouveaux riches merchants with every passing year. Of course, making something illegal rarely stops it from happening, and the design of *kanoko* was so popular that a way of getting around the law was quickly devised. - [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01fr219f3a3cdhkdmakmbepwar) - [[History of Kimino in the Edo Period by Katie Armstrong#id263564723 signaling status is expensive and can lead to wealth transfers|View in Vault]] - [n] Relevant for [[sumptuary laws]] #articleseed/addendum - [n] Relevant for [[Historical tips for worldbuilding realistic symbolism]] #articleseed/addendum