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📅 Updated:2026-09-01
🕒 Created:2015-08-18
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Description
A School Uniform describes any outfit clearly designed to be worn by students of a school or other educational institution. School uniforms can come in many forms, and differ between countries and schools.
School Uniform Items:
The following lists common clothing used for school uniforms, or commonly depicted types of school uniforms seen in art. This is not an exhaustive list:
Unisex Items:
- Jacket (or blazer), worn over a collared shirt.
- Dress Shirt worn with or without a necktie
- Polo Shirt almost always with a school emblem or crest
- Sweater or Sweater Vest oftentimes a button up cardigan, and usually worn over a collared shirt
Girls' Items:
Girls' school uniforms may be limited to unisex items, or combine one or more of the unisex items, with one or more of the following items below:
- Blouse (or dress shirt)
- Ribbons or Bow Tie
- Pleated Skirt Commonly plaid, black, blue or red
- Stockings, Thigh High Socks, or Knee Socks
- Mary Janes
Common Variants:
Western School Uniforms
Typically combines the following:
- Dress shirt/blouse (with or without tie),
- Dress pants or shorts for both sexes, but usually only worn by boys
- pleated skirt for girls (often tartan/plaid)
- Sweater or sweater vest
- Jackets (Blazer), usually with school insignia
Japanese School Uniforms
- Boys may be depicted wearing a dress shirt, trousers and tie, or wearing a uniform called a Gakuran, which consists of a button-up jacket with a standing collar, and dress pants, these uniforms are always black, or dark blue.
- Serafuku or Sailor Fuku, a style of outfit that consists of a blouse (usually white), sailor-style collar, and pleated skirt (usually blue), worn with a ribbon, neckerchief or bow tie. This is the most well known style of Japanese school uniform, and is strongly associated with Japanese culture.
