Gakuran
The gakuran (学ラン), also called the tsume-eri (詰襟), is the uniform for many middle-school and high-school boys in Japan. The color is normally black, but some schools use navy blue.
The top has a standing collar buttoning down from top to bottom. Buttons are usually decorated with the school emblem to show respect to the school. Pants are straight-leg, and a black or dark-colored belt is worn with them. Boys usually wear penny loafers or sneakers with this uniform. Some schools may require the students to wear collar pins representing the school and/or class rank.
Traditionally, the gakuran is also worn with a matching (usually black) student cap, although this custom is less common in modern times.
The gakuran is derived from the Prussian Waffenrock or the Christian clergy cassock. The term is a combination of Baku (学), meaning "study" or "student," and ran (らん/蘭), meaning the Netherlands or, historically in Japan, the West in general; thus, gakuran translates as "Western-style clothes for student (uniform)."
The original model of the present-day gakuran was first established in 1873 for students of all schools. During the Japanese occupation, such clothing was also brought to school in Korea, pre-1980s Taiwan, and Manchukuo. The gakuran is still worn in some South Korean conservative high schools.
While the gakuran is still associated solely with the boys' uniform of most middle schools and conservative high schools nowadays, blazers have begun to be adopted in most high schools in Japan (both public and private).
Sources
- More information is available at [ Wikipedia:Gakuran ]
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