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We have no information yet on the traditional clothes worn by Japanese school children before the Meiji Restoration or in fact much about the schools. We do no know that until the Meiji Restoration only a relatuively small number of boys from well-to-do families. We do not know of any specialized school wear, but our information is very limited at this time. Traditional garments were still commonly worn in the late-19th century even after the Meiji Restoration and the creation of a modern educational system. After the turn of the 20th century they gradually became less common in the cities, but were still worn in rural areas. Some schools had uniforms of kimonos done in the same material like a uniform. We are not sure how common that was. But wearing kimonos and other traditional garments was very common. After World War I, schools increasingly adoptef western-style uniforms, especially city schools by the 1930s. The boy at some schools, however, seem to have had worn traditional garments for special occassions--but almost always with the European cadet caps. We are not positice about this, but it seems to have been the case based on the photographic record. We note that even with traditional garments the boys wear cadet-style caps. And we continue seeong traditional garments in fural aeeas at the schools until after World War II.
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