Tabi are designed to be worn with geta, a type of thonged footwear.
Tabi are also essential with traditional clothingkimono and other "wafuku" as well as being worn by samurai in the feudal era.
From other examples, it is likely he is also wearing black tabi with white waraji.
Costumes include happi coats with black pants, black t-shirt, hachimaki and tabi.
Ordinary people wear at least slightly more formal zri when wearing special toe socks called tabi.
Tabi, an ankle high sock, is often worn with the kimono.
The most common colour is white, and white tabi are worn in formal situations such as at tea ceremonies.
The word is obsolete or archaic, the common term for travel, trip journey being "tabi".
