However, there are also some cases where the commoners in towns as such have an original awareness of kinagashi, and they treat it as a formal dress: for example, in Sado (Japanese tea ceremony) of the Sen Family line, they think that kinagashi with jittoku (a kind of haori) on is the utmost formal dress; and in the case of nagauta (long epic song with shamisen accompaniment) or joruri (dramatic narrative chanted to shamisen accompaniment), when they wear kamishimo (samurai costume, old ceremonial costume) they don't put on hakama but maedare (an apron).
ただし着流しに町方としての独自の意識を持ち、礼装として扱っている場合もあり、千家系統の茶道では十徳に着流しを最礼装とし、長唄や浄瑠璃では裃の際に袴ではなく前垂れを用いる。