Japanese School Chronology: The 1950s--Uniform Styles


Figure 1.--This school portrait shows the new first grade children at a school entrance ceremony in 1955. They are variouly dressed. Many boys wear suits with sports collars. A few have the cadet unifirms. It seems to be a cold day. Several girls wear coats and many of the children wear long stockings. The parents are even more interesting than the children.. Parents are not together as might be expected. The fathers are at the front nd the kothers at the back, many wearing traditional outfits. Put your cursor on the image to see the rest of the class..

We see some changes in schoolwear at Japanese schools during the 1950s. Many promary schools discontinued uniforms, but the secondary schools continued them. The army style uniforms adoped during the l930s had disappered, but the cadet-style uniforms were still common. We see them in the primary schools and they were almost universal in the secondary schools as were sailor outfits for girls. We do not yet see the smart European fashions that became popular in the 1960s at both uniform and non-uniform primary schools. The children do, however, seem to be more smartly dressed at the end of the decade. Here Japan's economic success and rising personl incomes must have been a factor. Boys in the 1950s continued to wear the long, sometimes baggy shorts that were common in the 1940s. We see some American styles, but blue jeans do not seem common. We do not see many boys waring knee socks, but long stockings were still common for the younger boys and girls. We re not sure just when tights replaced the long stockings, perhaps as early as the late-60s.








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