{"id":585,"date":"2019-06-25T18:24:55","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T17:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/preston\/?p=585"},"modified":"2019-06-25T18:29:02","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T17:29:02","slug":"how-to-wear-a-kimono-and-street-pastors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/preston\/2019\/06\/25\/how-to-wear-a-kimono-and-street-pastors\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Wear a Kimono and Street Pastors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have had some great speakers so far this year:\u00a0 Dave from<a href=\"https:\/\/streetpastors.org\/locations\/preston\/\"> Preston and South Ribble Street Pastors<\/a><\/p>\n<p>spoke about how he and his fellow pastors roam the streets of Preston every Saturday night from 10.30 till 3.00am when normal people are fast asleep.\u00a0 The pastors help and support night club and pub go-ers who are, as he so sweetly put it, &#8216;in a bit of a muddle&#8217;.\u00a0 This could be finding a taxi for them or their friends or give out flip flops to girls who have taken off their shoes (and who hasn&#8217;t ever done this? &#8211; even some Soroptimists in their dim and distant youth) and are in danger of cutting feet or worse.\u00a0 They support the homeless and the street workers.\u00a0 A couple of our members made up some &#8216;girly packs&#8217; with shampoo, soap, sanitary protection etc and these have been given out to girls on the street.<\/p>\n<p>We held our Friendship Evening recently when we invited members from other clubs in the region, had a speaker and some supper.\u00a0 Our speaker was Yumiko from Japan.\u00a0 Well, she&#8217;s been in the UK for 27 years and left Japan when she was 27 years old.\u00a0 She married an Englishman and has children.\u00a0 She brought some kimonos with her and, with her help, two of our guests donned these fabulous outfits.\u00a0 You wouldn&#8217;t believe how much work there goes into a kimono &#8211; from the actual material used to putting it on.\u00a0 And the layers!\u00a0 And there are socks for the shoes.\u00a0 Not just any old sock.\u00a0 These are specially made.\u00a0 These outfits are gorgeous and we really had a lovely evening as we sat there in our comfortable and easily washable clothes.\u00a0 Yumiko was a delight.\u00a0 We all had a really enjoyable evening &#8211; not least because it included home made cake.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/preston\/files\/2019\/06\/kimono-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-586\" src=\"\/preston\/files\/2019\/06\/kimono-2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/preston\/files\/2019\/06\/kimono-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/preston\/files\/2019\/06\/kimono-2.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/preston\/files\/2019\/06\/kimono-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-587\" src=\"\/preston\/files\/2019\/06\/kimono-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/preston\/files\/2019\/06\/kimono-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/preston\/files\/2019\/06\/kimono-1.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/preston\/files\/2019\/06\/kimono-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-588\" src=\"\/preston\/files\/2019\/06\/kimono-3-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/preston\/files\/2019\/06\/kimono-3-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/preston\/files\/2019\/06\/kimono-3.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have had some great speakers so far this year:\u00a0 Dave from Preston and South&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":296,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whats-the-lates"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How to Wear a Kimono and Street Pastors | News | Blog | Events | SI Preston<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Preston : Blog &amp; News : How to Wear a Kimono and Street Pastors : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Preston . 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