School uniforms in Japan
The school uniform is in Japan to the local mandatory private schools. The school uniform has European models for both boys and girls .
Occurrence
Since the secondary schools in Japan are mostly private schools, almost all students from the 7th grade onwards wear school uniforms. Only in the (predominantly state) primary school, which lasts up to sixth grade in Japan, are most students exempted from it.
Gakuran (boys)
Gakuran ( Japanese 学 ら ん or 学 ラ ン ) is the name of the Japanese school uniform for boys in middle and high school. The jacket and long trousers are mostly black, sometimes dark blue, and the shirt is mostly white. The jacket usually has gold buttons. The narrow collar is characteristic. This is because the basic form was derived from the Japanese army uniform , which in turn is based on Prussian models.
The name Gakuran is made up of the abbreviations of gakkō ( 学校 = school ) and randa ( ら ん だ ). The latter term comes from the Edo period and is probably an abbreviation of Oranda ( 和 蘭 , Port. Holanda = Holland ) and means "European clothing".
Sailorfuku (girl)
At many Japanese middle and high schools, girls wear a sailor suit ( セ ー ラ ー 服 , sērāfuku ) as their school uniform . It was introduced for the first time in 1921 at the Fukuoka Girls' Academy ( 福岡 女 学院 , Fukuoka jogakuin ) by director Elisabeth Lee based on the model of her sportswear in Great Britain . Sailor clothing soon found its way across the country as a school uniform for girls, while the boys' school uniform was mostly based on the (Prussian) army uniform. Classically, apart from the white stripes, the sailor shirt and skirt are kept in a dark blue throughout; Nowadays school uniforms are usually more colorful, with the colors dark blue, white and gray dominating.
In the 1980s, the fad emerged of wearing skirts long enough to reach the floor. Since this fashion was viewed as a bad habit and the long skirts appeared "like a cheap curtain" to some, short, mostly checked skirts were introduced. The sailor shirt was partially replaced by blazer , so that today there is the sailor and the blazer faction. The short skirt is now often worn as a mini skirt .
Sailor suits in popular culture
Japanese sailors' clothing has gained a certain degree of popularity in Germany primarily through manga and anime . It occurs, among other things, in a stylized form ( Sailor Moon ) or as a school uniform (e.g. in Kagome in Inu Yasha , Kazuha in Detective Conan ).
School uniform as a fetish
The fixation of some Japanese men on teenage women as a sex symbol has led strippers and hostesses to wear school uniforms in many bars, even if the woman is well past her 30s. Quite a number of porn actresses specialize in appearing as school girls in the films.
See also
- School Mizugi : School uniform in swimming lessons
- Burumā : former girls' school uniform in physical education
