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Clayton:
I don't know if you are going to train with us or not. I'm pretty much the only aikikai hombu affiliated and ranked instructor in the area and aikido dojo cho at Ta Ch'u Academy of the Martial Arts.
Basically, we prefer you wear the traditional aikido gi-white. If it is a financial issue, we will accept the black gi for a while, although this is more of a karate or kempo color. I don't know if you are a black belt or not. But the traditional hakama is black or blue. I saw my shihan not let someone on the mat at a seminar with a striped hakama.
I realize it is not the color of the gi or the hakama that affects ones technique. However, most instructors prefer not to have a cornucopia of colors-especially bumble bees. Respect for the art gets into wearing the appropriate attire on the mat.
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