An event to unveil the completed wedding dress "Mariage" made using Tsugaru's embroidery "Tsugaru Koginzashi" was held on March 3rd at Hirosaki Brick Warehouse Museum (Yoshino-cho, Hirosaki City).

Marriage is a wedding dress with kogin embroidery, and is produced by Hideko Sato, owner of select shop A.select (Dotemachi), and Roulottes (Kobe City), which produces and remakes wedding dresses. ) Co-produced by representative Hiromi Takechi. In addition to Sato and Takechi, guests on the day included Manami Abo, who actually applied the kogin embroidery on the dress, and Ayako Yoshida, from the Marketing Support Group, Regional Industry Division, Department of Commerce, Industry and Labor, Aomori Prefecture.

The event first introduced the encounter between Mr. Sato and Mr. Takechi. The two met when they sat next to each other at an event called ``Aomori x Kobe Business Co-Creation Workshop & Corporate Exchange'' hosted by Aomori Prefecture last September.

For Sato, who launched the original Kogin brand "Kogin de Jewel" in 2014, one of her goals is to create a Kogin-zashi wedding dress. After visiting Hirosaki in 2020, she fell in love with Koginzashi, and she and Takechi immediately hit it off, and the same month they met, they met in Kobe to discuss making a dress.

When the completed dress was unveiled, about 30 participants pointed at the camera and looked at the Modoko pattern on the dress with great interest. Takechi smiles and says, ``As someone who works in remakes, kogin-zashi is a truly wonderful piece of Tsugaru culture, as it was designed to repair damaged clothing.''

According to Abo, who applied the Kogin zashi to the dress, every day during the one-month production period was fun and exciting. ``The specialty store told me that Koginzashi was difficult to do on satin, so I had a hard time, but when I finished it, Mr. Sato was so moved that he shed tears.I was happy that I was able to help him make his dream come true.'' .

Mr. Sato says, ``The Modoko pattern stands out better if you embroidery a part of the dress rather than all over it.We add bouquets and ribbons to dresses like this one, and we accept individual orders for kogin patterns.'' "I want to commercialize it so that it can be used for a variety of purposes."