JK uniforms What is
JK?
JK refers to "じょしこうこうせい" (women's high school students) Roman abbreviation of "jyoshi koukousei" (take the "J" and "K" among them), and usually refers to Japanese female high school students.
Speaking of JK uniforms, people's mainstream impression is the most classic sailor suit. The sailor suit comes from the clothing of the early British navy, and was originally the clothing of navy soldiers in Japan. At the beginning of the 20th century, Japanese schools took the lead in incorporating sailor suit design into school uniforms. After World War II, school uniforms designed in the form of sailor suits began to be popularized in other parts of Asia, and gradually became formal clothing for schools above middle school.
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[During the rise, cyan-based sailor suits]
In 1919, the dress-style school uniforms developed by Yamawaki Girls’ High symbolized the beginning of standard school uniforms.
(Fukuoka Women's College Uniform)
In 1920 and 1921, Kyoto Heian Women's College and Fukuoka Women's College adopted dresses similar to sailor uniforms and split sailor uniforms as school uniforms, forming the prototype of modern Japanese sailor uniforms.
's early sailor suits were dominated by the combination of cyan and white, and the color of the jacket gradually became lighter in the later period, indicating the transformation of JK uniforms from implicit and dignified to young and lively style.
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[Bad style dresses became popular]
In the 1970s and 1980s, due to the prevalence of school management in Japan, the students' resistance was aroused and a trend of bad girls was set off. This trend was also the fuse that sparked the popularity of long skirts at the time.
There are three main reasons for the rise of long skirts. One is to imitate movies to keep up with fashion trends; the other is because it is convenient for long skirts to fight, so there is no need to worry about running out; and the third is to change the skirts to long skirts to protest the pornography of sailor suits.
(Film and TV works: "The road must be added to the school")
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[Western uniform appears]
(Jinghua Girls’ High School Uniform)
In the late 1980s, Japan began to continue to promote education reform, but the phenomenon of students transforming school uniforms It was a headache, so some schools simply abandoned the traditional sailor suit styles and started designing western school uniforms instead.
's new style of western school uniforms is very popular because of the good-looking version, which attracts many students, which increases the learning atmosphere and reduces the behavior of changing school uniforms, so other schools also began to change uniforms, so western school uniforms gradually replaced the traditional Sailor suit.
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[GAL wind craze]
In the 1990s, popular idol Namie Amuro put a short skirt and bubble garter on the screen. At that time, a high school girl with long brown hair, dark skin, wearing mini skirts and loose bubble socks , It became the style of the early GAL.
Later, the new GAL style with white skin and light blonde hair represented by Ayumi Hamasaki became popular, and it also gained considerable popularity in other countries.
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[The return of top students, knee-length skirts and straight socks]
Regarding the restless behavior of modifying the length of uniform skirts, Japanese private schools with strict requirements even use a ruler to measure whether the length of students' skirts and socks has been modified.
In Japan, only students with good grades can be admitted to private schools. Therefore, the behavior of "wearing straight socks" has gradually become a representative of "good students", and bubble socks have gradually withdrawn from the fashion trend.
So many female students began to wear knee-length skirts and straight stockings, showing the demure, feminine, and pure side of the girl. The development of
JK uniforms is constantly changing with the national conditions and reforms of Japan. So far, the styles of JK uniforms have become more and more diverse.
Today, JK uniforms still represent and symbolize the youth, purity and vitality of the student period. With the development of the times, people have gradually broken the solidified view of JK uniforms. JK uniforms are accepted and loved by more and more people, and the market has emerged accordingly.
(The content of this article is referenced from: Baidu Encyclopedia & Nico)
