The role of konoshi as a more informal garment than kariginu was forgotten in the early modern period when, since the time of the retired emperors Gosai and Reigen, it came to be worn by retired emperors following abdication, but the sashinuki was also worn in the shokukuri style.
近世には小直衣が狩衣よりも略装であることが忘れられ、後西・霊元上皇以後布衣始で上皇等が使用しており、指貫を下括にすることも行われた。