[Except she's not right back; she spends quite a bit of time in Rei's room. There are a few seconds at first where she glances around the room with the realization that this is probably where they're going to be sleeping, but it's mostly because she's discovering the difficulties associated while being stubborn about trying to get it right. If Rei is close enough to the door and has good hearing, she might hear some muttering at some points in the process. Eventually, though, Fenimore emerges, hesitantly and maybe even a little shyly.]
So, um. How do I look?
[It's...not a disaster, at least. With a lot of work, she's managed to get the fabric to lie mostly straight and at the right height. Certainly not perfect, but quite good for a beginner. By chance, she'd also by chance folded it with the proper side on top without realizing there was any meaning behind it -- she'd just immitated without thinking about it. She'd even managed to figure out that the first cord should be tied around the top of the hip bone when she'd realized there were two such cords and that the extra fabric hangs over the top of it (she doesn't actually think the latter is supposed to happen, but she couldn't figure out what to do about it and eventually decided that the sash would hide it).
That's about the end of her successes, though. The second cord is tied too low, nearly on top of the first one, leaving the top of the yukata somewhat loosely secured. This is a pretty minor problem compared to the obi, though. Not only is it also too low, she'd tied it on with a bow more like a shoelace -- and a rough bow, at that, since she tried to tie it on behind her back rather than tying it at the front and turning it around. Despite some effort to straighten it after the fact, this has left parts of the sash bent near the bow as she tried to work it like a shoelace, leaving the first layer poking out from under the second wrap around. The first layer is occasionally poking just slightly out from underneath in other places as well, since she's just not used to it.
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[Except she's not right back; she spends quite a bit of time in Rei's room. There are a few seconds at first where she glances around the room with the realization that this is probably where they're going to be sleeping, but it's mostly because she's discovering the difficulties associated while being stubborn about trying to get it right. If Rei is close enough to the door and has good hearing, she might hear some muttering at some points in the process. Eventually, though, Fenimore emerges, hesitantly and maybe even a little shyly.]
So, um. How do I look?
[It's...not a disaster, at least. With a lot of work, she's managed to get the fabric to lie mostly straight and at the right height. Certainly not perfect, but quite good for a beginner. By chance, she'd also by chance folded it with the proper side on top without realizing there was any meaning behind it -- she'd just immitated without thinking about it. She'd even managed to figure out that the first cord should be tied around the top of the hip bone when she'd realized there were two such cords and that the extra fabric hangs over the top of it (she doesn't actually think the latter is supposed to happen, but she couldn't figure out what to do about it and eventually decided that the sash would hide it).
That's about the end of her successes, though. The second cord is tied too low, nearly on top of the first one, leaving the top of the yukata somewhat loosely secured. This is a pretty minor problem compared to the obi, though. Not only is it also too low, she'd tied it on with a bow more like a shoelace -- and a rough bow, at that, since she tried to tie it on behind her back rather than tying it at the front and turning it around. Despite some effort to straighten it after the fact, this has left parts of the sash bent near the bow as she tried to work it like a shoelace, leaving the first layer poking out from under the second wrap around. The first layer is occasionally poking just slightly out from underneath in other places as well, since she's just not used to it.
...She tried.]