While solid white products are popular for formal dress such as kuromontsuki (black haori with family crest) at present, products of light blue or light grey were mainly used for men's formal dress until the early Showa period.
現在、黒紋付をはじめとする礼装には白無地が一般的だが、昭和初期までは男性の場合礼装にも薄水色か薄灰色を使うのが主流である。