School uniform display at a department store
: )
In Japan, new term starts in the first week
of April
so freshmen prepare for their appointed school
uniform in March.
Nowadays more and more schools don't have
a school uniform and students wear casual
clothes
to attend the class.
I often hear and read many American and European
people
criticize our uniform, saying that wearing
the same clothes as a uniform
may destroy individual personality of the
young people.
Personally, I do not think it is that bad.
It may seem strange or odd to Western eyes,
just because
they are not accustomed to any kind of uniform.
But I consider wearing school uniform is
a part of our custom,
and by wearing uniform every morning, I believe,
students
can re-realize what they are expected to
do.
(students are to study and learn at school
and behave well)
The high school I went to had a nice school
uniform
and I was very proud of wearing it.
It was "sailor's type", the one
you see in the center in the picture above.
Mine had a black scarf instead of red.
I felt somehow different while I was wearing
the uniform
and I remember how I liked that feeling :
)
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