To be honest, in addition to the "black technology" of various steel torrents, in the former Soviet Union, there is also a reason for the otakus to be particularly passionate and yearning-ingenious school uniforms for girls.
It is hard to imagine that every burly Soviet/Russian aunt has experienced the stage of wearing a school uniform like the one below and being soft and cute.
Soviet Union, a super hegemon who used the nuclear warhead to make the world tremble, and the State Planning Commission to make his own people tremble, is there a "little public act" in his heart, or a "maid-controlled"?
In fact, the white apron is not necessarily the real "maid outfit"-this kind of association is more biased by the cosplay of posterity.
Let's start at the end of the 19th century.
Take a look at the picture below. This is the work of the American portrait painter Sargent (1856-1925), titled "Edward Darry Boyt's Daughters."
Note that this Mr. Edward is a lawyer and popular politician who graduated from and Harvard . His wife is a socialite, and his couple and four daughters live in the wealthy area of Paris-these four loli in white aprons, Belongs to the rich second generation!
And the apron girls in the photo below are even more impressive-the last tsar Nicholas II 's four princesses, properly golden branches and jade leaves.
So, although maids or nurses did wear white aprons during those years, those who wear white aprons are not limited to these two types of women.
At the beginning of the 20th century, a sturdy nurse lady
The aprons of those little white and rich girls are not equivalent to maid outfits.Or nurses' clothes, and more, it was a popular way of dressing for little girls in the West at that time. In order to protect the beautiful little skirt from getting dirty, it is the same as when you were forced to hang up a bib and sleeves when you were a child.
Let us look back at the predecessor of the Soviet Union, the Tsarist Empire.
As a country deliberately marginalized by the European world, old Russia has been striving to move closer to the "center of European civilization" since the reform of Peter the Great at the end of the 17th century.
It is during these centuries that the Russian ruling stratum has become "uniform control"-they believe that uniforms help establish authority and a sense of order and are a "sign of a civilized country."
Russian czars are almost uniformly controlled.
Through the force of the country, uniforms are promoted to all walks of life, including school uniforms for students.
Boys’ school uniforms mainly imitate the style of military uniforms, while for girls, they are in the form of a uniform dark dress + white apron.
The picture below is a very grand school uniform for girls.
At this time, most Tsarist Russian schools are unisex schools. The girls wear white aprons, which are purely the need for uniforms. Uniform dressing can also prevent female students from competing with each other. The ethos of "Maid" has nothing to do with the "maid outfit" with hints and provocations.
What's more, at this time, girls who can wear school uniforms and sit in the classroom are generally not from poor family backgrounds. They have nothing to do with the profession of maid.
Tsarist aristocratic girls’ school students at the end of the 19th century
By the beginning of the 20th century, with the sound of the October Revolution, the above-mentioned school uniforms of the Tsarist-Russian school girls were regarded as “remnants of the old imperialist world” ", suffered a ruthless rejection.
Throughout the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s,All my energy is spent on industrialization and resisting subversion by external forces. I don’t care too much about the seemingly trivial issues of what students should wear in school.
During this period, the Soviet Union's education undertakings advanced by leaps and bounds, from the world's illiterate country to one of the few countries in the world that popularized seven-year education.
The Soviet Union’s literacy class
was followed by the Patriotic War era. After waiting for a breath of relief in the late 1940s, it was suddenly discovered that a world-class education system must be built and unified. Dress is also a necessary issue.
The Soviet government decisively began to popularize standard school uniforms in its vast territory.
As for the style, the Soviets improved the school uniforms for boys and girls from the Tsarist Russia era. Soon, from the children’s school in Moscow to the remote rural elementary and middle schools in the republic of , the uniform requirements for the dress of the students in the Soviet basic education stage-boys or military-style lapel shirts and jackets, girls wear dark brown or navy blue Color dress, white collar and white cuffs, outer cover apron, usually wear a black apron; during the holidays, you must wear a white apron (a bit of a dress), and white flowers or white ribbons will be tied on the head.
1953, Soviet elementary school English textbook, girls brown skirts with black aprons
Of course, boys and girls will also wear bright red scarves.
Soviet school uniforms in the early 1950s
These two children should not have reached the age of wearing a red scarf
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_p With the changes in the international environment and social atmosphere, the school uniforms of Soviet elementary and middle school students have been "demilitarized" again-boys’ military uniforms have become a combination of casual suit jackets and shirts, and girls’ skirts. , It is significantly shortened,The white flowers on the head are getting bigger and bigger and more exaggerated.
In the era of Brezhnev, boys’ styles have become more casual, girls’ skirts have continued to be shortened, and white aprons have also shown some new and varied lace elements, and their styles are more innovative. The big white flower of yarn on the head is still so eye-catching.
This era coincides with the rebellious punk style popular in the West. Girls in most countries around the world have short skirts.
In the 1970s, Soviet middle school students in brown dresses and black aprons
usually wore black aprons
they wore white aprons when doing activities
Clothing has become the standard dress for the successors of the Soviet socialist countries, and is constantly exploring and innovating in accordance with the trend of the times.
However, in the years before the collapse of the Soviet Union, they began to learn from Westerners in school uniforms. The "space suit" style school uniforms were once popular, and both male and female students could wear short ones. Skirts and aprons are no longer rigidly regulated.
Immediately after entering the Russian era, in 1992, in order to express the "liberal democracy" of the new country's values, the Russian Federation directly abolished the uniform school uniform.
Later we saw those fair-skinned and beautiful Russian girls with long legs wearing "maid outfits" with white flowers on their heads. Most of them belonged to a kind of "dress" that appeared in the graduation season or participated in ceremonies or large-scale events, with a little bit of wear. The taste of cosplay.
In the past two decades, girls from Russia and other republics of the former Soviet Union have long gone to school in an apron with white gauze flowers.
Girls usually don’t wear that way
They dress like this when doing school activities
Graduation season photo
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, Some Russian schools have begun to restore the school uniform tradition, but this time, in order to move closer to Europe again, it looks like a "British style."
After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and other elementary and middle school students from the former Soviet republics, for a long time, most of them still used maid outfits as dresses, until recent years With the wave of "de-Russification", the school uniforms and dresses of these countries have been changed one after another.
The dresses of Ukrainian elementary school students at the beginning of this century, with the taste of the Soviet Union, are now completely "Europeanized". ”Design, but retains the tradition of “big white flowers” from the Soviet era.
Here is one more sentence of that exaggerated big white flower.
In our eyes, white has an unlucky taste, especially when it gets stuck on the head, it often makes people associate with " 戴孝 ".
However, in Christian culture, white is an extremely sacred color, symbolizing light and purity. Especially girls, wearing white clothes means the purity of their souls. For example, white wedding dresses have this referentiality. Since 1840 Queen Victoria appeared in a white dress at her wedding,This operation was followed by the entire West, and the wedding dresses were acquiesced to become "pure and flawless" white.
The Victorian wedding scene in the oil painting
In addition, Russian people live in high latitudes, and the winter has a short light time , which also makes them more aware of the whiteness of light and snow Beloved.
Typically, like Leo Tolstoy’s "Resurrection", the heroine Maslova’s first few appearances emphasized “wearing a white apron” even though she Wearing a gray prison uniform and insisting on wearing a white skirt inside, it makes people feel a sense of "holiness".
Therefore, in the Russian cultural atmosphere, girls wear big white flowers, which are very solemn and holy dresses. So far, everyone can still see that the female cadets of the red square parade will also tie a big white yarn flower after combing their hair into a bun—this belongs to young women. "Standard configuration" for attending major etiquette events.
In addition, the Soviet school uniforms, in addition to our common boys uniform jackets and girls skirts and aprons, they also have sportswear, Young Pioneers uniforms, etc., appearing on different occasions.
Young Pioneers team uniforms, pay attention to the long legs
Summer camp clothing, or long legs
sportswear
There are also school uniforms that cannot be ignored in the Soviet era. Has inspired a large number of "brother countries".
Since the big brother has done this, the brothers of the socialist camp of naturally have to follow up in time.
Romanian primary and middle school students are doing activities
Cuban primary school students
The young Chinese pioneers in the 1950s and 1960s
The following Chinese school uniforms were once imitated by the Soviet Union. Relatively simple style.
However, due to our national conditions at the time, these Soviet-style school uniforms have basically only appeared in some schools in large and medium-sized cities. For the vast majority of Chinese teenagers, this kind of "foreign" style Clothes only exist in posters and posters.
It is said that in the 1980s and early 1990s, China once restored this style of school uniforms.
Immediately after that, you and I are all familiar with it. I used to get along for many years, and the face pocket version of sportswear was indistinguishable from male and female.
So when I was in school, I heard that foreign school uniforms were also divided into male and female models. I once felt very fresh and envious. I learned later that long ago, our Chinese school uniforms were also divided into male and female versions.
Unfortunately, the short skirts and white aprons that originally meant "developed socialism" were speciously defined as "maid outfits" by people in other cultural circles, and they were added in the hands of Americans. Strong erotic meaning, and "ambiguous" collocations such as garter stockings, short skirts, short sleeves and waistbands appeared. After
, it was reused by Japanese anime. In the end, it became the now-known "two-dimensional maid costume", which attracts the slightly wretched eyes of otaku all day long...
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