Figure 1.--Here we see a suit offered in Japanese catalogs. These suits seem to have been primarily for younger boys just beginning school and only worn for special occassions.
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Figure 1.--Here we see a suit offered in Japanese catalogs. These suits seem to have been primarily for younger boys just beginning school and only worn for special occassions. |
We do not have a lot of information about how suits are worn at Japanese schools. These are not school uniforms in the sense that thgey have the school badge on the jacket, but rther what look like srandard suits that could be worn for any dress up occassion. We do note a few advertisements of jackets with creasts, but this may be a kind of representative badge rather than a real school badge. We do know that they seem more common at private schools than state schools. Also we seem to notice that almost all available images show quite young boys wearing these suits. This seems to us to suggest that they are primzrily intended for school interviews and first day ceremonies. They may be worn at other special events at school. We do not, however, see many images of older boys wearing them, except at private scools with have suits for the standard school uniform.
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