Haori...

Haori is one of Japanese kimono coats.
You put kosode or nagagi on haori due to protection against cold and full dress.

It started at the end of the muromachi era, and over times, designs of haori have changed,
then the design now has been popular since modern times.
Nowadays, common people seldom wear kamishimo in usual life apart from some Japanese traditional festivals or costume plays.
However, wearing haori and hakama with family marks (Montsuki-haori-hakama) is still traditional and formal for Japanese men.
long-length haori coats down to knees for women used to trend in cloths from the meiji to the taisyo era.
When it came in the middle of the showa era, middle-length haori coats down till a waist boomed in cloths.
After that, because kimono itself has not been as popular in normal life as before, haori is not as much made as before either.

However, antique kimono has recently boomed in cloths so that haori gets into the limelight again in Japan.
By the way, this boom has been only long-length haori coat since 2004.

 

Gakuura...

Gakuura is a reverse of the haori in kimono and must be dressed up by man.
In art, this is a detailed work and neat painting.
In quality, this is normally made of silk and smoothness is essential due to directly touching skin.

Gakuura is a point that a person who unclothes your haori at a Geisha place or a high-class restaurant so called Ryoutei for example,
this person who recognizes that your must be fashionable or somehow a gentle man by colorful and detailed Gakuura painting use.