Figure 1.--Here we see the Tamagawa winter uniform, basically navy blue suits. The girl's did not have a specifiued uniforms, but were told to dress like the boys. The exception was rather than the boys' short pants, they wore skirts or dresses. |
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The School has a required uniform for the younger students. The School has a required uniform for boys in grades 1-4 (6-10 year olds). The winter uniform includes a navy blue cap for 1st and 2nd graders. All the 1st-4th grade boys wear a navy blue short pants suit, white shirt, white knee socks, and black leather shoes. The school advises the boys that the school uniform is 'Based on dark blue suits and ties that are used in many situations in social life, we will teach you how to wear them.' Beginning in the 3rd grade, the boys wear ties. The school uniform illustration shows white knee socks. School activities show both white and dark blue knee socks. The approch for the girls is rather unusual. The PC crowd in America would not be impressed. The school advises, "Girls clothes should be suitable for the occasion. This is the tradition since Tamagawa Gakuen's founding. Girls do not have uniforms. We are instructing girl students to go to school with clothes that match the boys' uniform." By matching the School means the caps, suit jacket, shirt, knee socks and shoes. They do not mean the short pants. The girls wear suit coats/blazers, sweaters, dresses, blouses, plain or checked skirts, and white, navy, and gray socks. All the girls wear skirts or dresses. While there is no uniform for the girls, the school, advises the girls, "For a skirt suitable for school, we have specified a standard skirt that can be freely selected from 15 types." There is a designated school bag. While at school, may of the children generally take off their suit jackets. The school has a very informal summer uniform, at least for the boys. The 1st and 2nd graders wear a wuite cap. They boys wear a collared sports shirt that does not have to be tucked in with short pants with white knee socks. The girls wear a light-weight summer dress, also with white knee socks. Beginning in the 5th grade, the children dress like the older students.
The winter uniform includes a navy blue cap for 1st and 2nd graders. All the 1st-4th grade boys wear a navy blue short pants suit, white shirt, white knee socks, and black leather shoes. The school advises the boys that the school uniform is 'Based on dark blue suits and ties that are used in many situations in social life, we will teach you how to wear them.' Beginning in the 3rd grade, the boys wear ties. The school uniform illustration shows white knee socks. School activities show both white and dark blue knee socks. The approch for the girls is rather unusual. The PC crowd in America would not be impressed. The school advises, "Girls clothes should be suitable for the occasion. This is the tradition since Tamagawa Gakuen's founding. Girls do not have uniforms. We are instructing girl students to go to school with clothes that match the boys' uniform." By matching the School means the caps, suit jacket, shirt, knee socks and shoes. They do not mean the short pants. The girls wear suit coats/blazers, sweaters, dresses, blouses, plain or checked skirts, and white, navy, and gray socks. All the girls wear skirts or dresses. While there is no uniform for the girls, the school, advises the girks, "For a skirt suitable for school, we have specified a standard skirt that can be freely selected from 15 types." There is a designated school bag. While at school, may of the children generally take off their suit jackets.
The school has a very informal summer uniform, at least for the boys. Substantial parts of the Japanese archgepeligo have warm climates. The 1st and 2nd graders wear a whuite cap. They boys wear a collared sports shirt that does not have to be tucked in with short pants with white knee socks. The girls wear a light-weight summer dress, also with white knee socks. The boy's outfit hardly looks like a uniform especially with shorts that are not ticked in. Light weight summrr dresses for thed girls, in contrast, are commonly worn in many countries as a school uniform outfit.
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