School Uniform

School Uniforms

     There are some types of school uniforms in Japan.  In general, students of kindergarten and elementary school do not wear the uniforms.  They go to school with normal clothes, but some of schools have their own shool uniforms.  However, most of students of junior high school and high school wear the uniforms.  For boys, Gakuran and Blazer are an ordinary uniforms.  On the other hand, for girls, they usually wear sailor outfit or blazer.

Elementary school students

     Elementary school students do not wear school uniforms, but they must wear a yellow cap or hat, and if it rains, they must hold a yellow umbrella when they are going to school.  The reason that they use the yellow hat and umbrella is for road safety.  In foreign country, students do not have to change their shoes after they arrive at school, but in japan they wear another shoes for room, called "uwabaki". 

In elementary school and junior high school, they wear a Japanese-style  apron and at lunch time.  Then, they divide the lunch by themselves. 

 

Junior high school students

 

    In junior high school, most students are obliged to wear the school uniforms.  There are many types of unifrms in Japan.   For boys, there are basically two types of uniforms.  One is "Gakuran", the other is blazer.  About girls, they wear a sailor outfits or blazer.  In addition, students may put on a necktie, tie a ribbon or wear scarf around their neck.  Summer uniform is usually only white shirt and skirt or pants.

High school students

       Most schools require shool uniforms: generally a summer uniform, winter uniform, and PE uniform. The summer uniform usually consists of a short-sleeved shirt ("cutter shirt") and slacks for boys, and a pleated skirt and short-sleeved blouse for girls (often with the traditional sailor suit collar, but not always). Winter uniforms tend to be more diverse: at some schools, boys wear stiff-collared jackets, while at other schools they wear blazers and neckties, and at other schools they wear sweaters or sweater vests. Likewise, some girls wear sweaters, some wear blazers, some wear long-sleeved sailor blouses. PE uniforms usually consist of a simple T-shirt and track pants, sorts, or bloomers. Uniforms vary from school to school, and it is possible to know which school a student attends simply by looking at the style and colors of their uniform: this is one of the ways Japanese schools have of fostering school spirit, and it doesn't work that well. Most schools have strict regulations on how the uniform can be worn, which leads to many Japanese schoolgirls throwing on makeup, putting on their loose socks, and hiking up their skirts once they pass out of their teachers' line of sight.

Gakuran(学ラン)

      This type of school uniform is called Gakuran (jap. and/or the Japanese school uniform for boys in the central and high school. The skirt (i.e. the jacket) and the long trousers are usually black, partly also dark-blue, that shirt usually white. The skirt has usually golden buttons. Is characteristic the close collars. This is because of it that the basic form was derived from the Japanese uniform of the army, again be based on Prussian models.  The name Gakuran sits down together from the abbreviations of gakko = school) and randa Latter term originates from the Edo time and is probably again an abbreviation of Oranda haven. Olanda = Holland) and means "„European clothes ".

Sailor Outfit(セーラー服)

      At many Japanese central and high schools the girls carry a sailor suit as school uniform (jap. Serafuku). For the first time it was introduced 1921 to the girl academy Fukuoka Fukuoka Jogakuin) by the directress Elizabeth Lee after the model of its sport clothes into Great Britain. Soon the sailor clothes found the school uniform of the boys to spreading as girl school uniform country-wide, during itself usually at (Prussian) the army uniform oriented. Sailor shirt and skirt are held classical way apart from the white strips constantly in a dark blue; nowadays the school uniforms are usually color-gladder, whereby the colors dominate dark-blue, white and grey.

     Into the 1980er years arose the mode feature to carry the skirts so long that they reached up to the soil. Since this fashion as Unsitte was rated and the long skirts appeared to some "„like a cheap curtain"”, short, usually cross-hatched skirts were introduced. The sailor shirt was partly replaced by Blazer, so that there is today the sailor and the Blazer parliamentary group. The short skirt is carried today gladly as mini skirt, with which the Loose Socks becomes effective particularly well.

references:

http://www.answers.com/topic/loose-socks
http://www.julieinjapan.com/2007/09/grade-three-esl-teaching-abroad.html
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http://japandesu.com/culture/c010.php
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images:

• http://www.travellerspoint.com/photos/gallery/users/Twinkle/
• http://www.japananimation.it/frontend/content.asp?artID=960&ProdID=4
• http://www.kousen.ed.jp/junior/uniform.html
• http://www.rissho-hs.ac.jp/school_life/uniform.html

posted by Yumiko Okada

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