Figure 1.--Here a Korean boy shows off the school uniform shirt he is buying. He is shopping with his mother at an oopen air market. The red tag on the shirt I think has the school's name. |
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Japanese school children wore both their regular clothes as well as actual uniform garments. The same appears to be the case in Kore. Korean primary uniforms can be quite destinctive. We do not see British-style blazers, but we dont note vest-like jackets. Secondary schools cmmonly use the cadet caps and jackets inherited from the Japanese colonia era. Here there was some bluring of non-uniform and uniform garments, especially with hosiery and footwear. Some schools with uniforms did not have required hosiery and footwear or did not strctly enforce the regulations. A reader writes, " I noted the hosiery the children are wearing at a Korean school. One of the girls is wearing striped knee socks, which I don't think we have
seen before as part of a school uniform. The boys seem to be wearing white tights with shorts, but notice that, in at least one case, the white tights are patterned. I don't believe we have seen patterened tights in Korea or Japan before. Is this an innovation?" We have noted in both Korea and Japan that younger children wore a variety of tights and socks done in both stripes as well as with designs, often catoon characters on them.
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