Figure 1.--This private school had a uniform that was very strictky enforced. Even so, the boys commonly wore both ankle socks and knee socks. |
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Curiously given the strictness regarding the uniform at many Japanese schools, not as much attention is given to hosiery as most other elements of the uniform. This is not to say that hosiery was ignored, but we do seem to see variation here that was not notable in other aspects of the uniform. This varies from school to school. Some schools are more strict than others. But at many schools there is much less attention given to hosiery. We do not have a lot of information on this. But the photographic reord suggests that many schools, esven strict private schools, tolerated a considerable degree of variation in hosiery. Our information is largely based on the photographic record. Hopefully Japanese readers will provide us more information here.
We commonly see wearing both knee socks and ankle socks. Both seem to have been allowed. We see much more consistency in British school uniform. Here there seems to have been a short period when a seasonal uniform was made. But for the most part this was for only a short period. We see Japanese children commonly coming to school in both knee socks and ankle socks and this includes private schools that were especially strict about the school uniform. We note boys at quite a number of schools wearing a mixture of ankle socks and knee socks. Perhaps seasonal changes are involved. But we see this so commonly that it seems something that was generally tolerated at many schools.
Hosiery variation is not something we see at just at a few schools. Enforcement of uniform hosiery va ried fom school to school, but we see variation at many uniform schools.
Normally a school chose a color. Here the schools tended to be fairly consistent. We do not commonly see the children at uniform schools wearing different color socks. We are not sure yet as to shade variation.
Nor does keeping knee socks pulled up seem to be a major issue as was the case at some British schools. This we are not yet entirelyvsure about.
Some schools specified the brand od scocks to be purchased. We are not entirely sure how common this was. We think it was mostly the private schools.
Some times even variations in the detailing are allowed. This was more likely to be the case at the schools that were not as strict about uniform. For the most part we notice this at state schools. Some of the younger children wore socks with animals or other little images on them.
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