Kimonos are offensive?!

When I visited Japan, a highlight in Kyoto was going to a place that dressed us up as geishas and samurais. There were also young Japanese doing the same thing, dressing up in costumes they no longer get to wear in everyday life, trying to recapture some of what that would have felt like.

We walked out to get photos taken, and Japanese people walking by smiled at us, realizing this was an act of appreciation for an amazing culture, not an insult.

Dressing up in period costumes or the clothing of a different culture isn't necessarily "appropriation" or insult, it can be homage. It's all in the context and the intent, but I guess that's too subtle for the PC police.