However, in the Muromachi period, hitatare ceremonial robes became popular among the aristocracy and the samurai families, so opportunities for wearing suikan decreased, except by boys before they came of age.
しかし、室町時代に入ると貴族にも直垂が広まり、武家も直垂を多用したので、童水干などを除いて着装機会は減少した。