Ibuki's build is depicted as slim and athletic, with black hair held tightly back in a topknot ponytail that drops well beneath her waist. Her usual fighting outfit, in which she has appeared in most of the games, is a type of ninja dogi, consisting of a sleeveless upper garment, baggy pants slit at the sides (for easy movement), arm guards, and a mask that conceals the lower half of her face. Her footwear consists only of cloth bandages wrapped around her shins, ankles and instep. Ibuki's alternative, everyday costume is a blue-and-white Japanese schoolgirl uniform, or casual clothes—in the same color scheme—with a chain of miniature kunai knives and a fake tanuki tail, introduced in "Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition". Her "Street Fighter III" ending's original schoolgirl costume has been by re-used by the "" designer Hideaki Itsuno for this game's character Hinata Wakaba because he thought it was "cute". One of her scrapped costume concepts for "Super Street Fighter IV" was a very distinct, partially armored ninja outfit, which was more skimpy and featured two Japanese swords on her back.