Uniform Culture: Uniforms And "Face Pockets"

In the graduation season, how many people walked out of the school for many years, I still remember a bitter tear when I saw the blue and white or red and white school uniforms. "Then I had to draw some cartoon characters on school uniforms to decorate the monotony."

　　 History of school uniform in China

Of course, uniforms have been in the golden age in Chinese history.

The "standard student suit" came into being after the revolution of 1911. At that time, Western-style clothes had just come to the fore, but people wearing long gowns and Liriodendron were still the majority. The students in Japan drive the popularity of Japanese style student clothes and student caps. China's original student costume comes from an improved western style garment in Japan, usually with standing collar, with black or light grey. Before the appearance of the "Zhongshan suit", Sun Zhongshan liked to wear student clothes, which was rare in the political elite and revolutionary colleagues at that time.

In the early years of the Republic of China, women's clothing began to be simplified, from the top coat to the upper skirt, and the decoration became less complicated. At that time, women's schools began to flourish and modeled on western education. Students usually came from enlightened families. The girls' clothes are also made up of skirts. Lin Whei-yin's wearing a student costume in 1916 is still fashionable today. The women's clothing was affected by Japanese women's clothing. The collar was high, the clothes were narrow and slender, the sleeves were trumpet sleeves, the hem was curved and matched with the black long skirts. Influenced by new ideas, girls do not wear their ears, they do not wear jewelry or paint, they are called "civilized new clothes".

This girl's costume has been popular for more than 10 years. There is an article that says, "since the female school is booming, the female students are all dressed up and dressed.

In 1929, the Nanjing national government promulgated the new "Regulations on service", which stipulates that men's gowns are robes and gowns, the tuxedo is abolished and the student uniform is the uniform of male servants. At this time, the students' clothes are made up of closed collar, 5 pairs of buttons, the front left side and the lower part of the front and left skirts. At that time, the uniforms had become the uniforms for large, middle and primary schools, especially for college students.

The women in this period changed their cheongsam, and the cheongsam with waist and sub slots showed the beauty of women's curves. Cheongsam has also entered the campus, becoming the new favorite of the girls. The scarf, the Qipao, the lotus leaf sleeves Qipao, the shawl style Qipao, the girls use cheongsam to show the beauty of youth.

At the beginning of the founding of new China, people were fortunate to enjoy a short "spring of clothing". It was 1956, and Biraghi was all the rage, but this time was very short. All kinds of "Biraghi" were pressed into the bottom of the box, and people finally wore blue and gray monotonous costumes. Only children can be allowed to wear some fancy clothes as "flowers of the motherland". They can wear navy shirts, cloth skirts and Su Shikuan straps for student skirts. But in difficult times, food and clothing have not yet been resolved. It is impossible to unify school uniforms.

During the "Cultural Revolution", students wore yellow and green old uniform, which first became popular among military cadres and became fashionable. It is very proud for children to have an old uniform, so it is very common to have a uniform worn out in the air, and a military coat of the general school can be crossed.

Afterwards, the school uniform on the historical stage is the "face pocket" sportswear that is still very common today. It is said that the original intention of the designer is to avoid comparisons. But there are many disadvantages: first, it is not conducive to the cultivation of aesthetic ideas. Nowadays, the generation of many "female men" may be related to this. Secondly, some students have said: "from childhood, consistency is emphasized, even dressing is the same. Where does innovative thinking come from?" but in the final analysis, "Ugliness" is the biggest sticking point of sportswear school uniform. You try to put children's clothes on Japanese students to see if they will conflict.

Romance in Japanese school uniform

In 1879, the Japanese Academy of Education decided to redress the Prussian army officer uniform as male uniform, followed by other middle school and college. The "sailor suit" of girls appeared in 1921, when the dean of the Fukuoka women's college, in order to facilitate the movements of female students, asked the manufacturer to design a uniform in the form of a sailor uniform. Later, schools in Tokyo and other regions followed suit. "Sailor clothes" became the uniform school girls' uniform in Japan. In Japan, every year on the day of "clothes replacement" (in June 1st, for summer wear), newspapers will print photos of girls wearing "sailor clothes" to emphasize the advent of early summer, which has become one of the summer's "wind poems" in Japan.

Some people have seen the idea of "male superiority and inferiority" in Japanese students' clothes, because "uniforms of Japanese boys are similar to military uniform, while girls' uniforms are like sailors or soldiers' clothes, while soldiers must obey the orders of officers". Despite these stereotype analysis, there are still some romantic elements in Japanese student uniforms. If the girls received second buttons on the boys' uniform on graduation day, it means that boys are saying "I like you" - second buttons are the closest ones to the heart.

"Look!" the Chinese boys probably protested. "How can we get a little bit of exquisite stuff on our school uniform?"