Nobles exercised their ingenuity in selecting the colors of outer and lining fabrics; which resulted in 'irome,' giving elegant names to combinations of fabrics in which the color of lining fabrics could be faintly seen through thin outer silk.
貴族達は狩衣の表地と裏地の色に工夫を凝らし、裏地の色が薄い絹を通して表にほんのり現れる様子に優美な名称をつける「色目」が考え出された。