Schoolgirl Skirts Doomed: 80% Support Trousers
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Jan 22, 2010 11:12 JST
- Tags: Fashion, Panchira, Schoolgirls, Seifuku, Skirts, Statistics, Teachers
Recent survey results seem to suggest that skirts may not long remain a part of the archetypal Japanese school uniforms, with 80% approving of trousers, which have been gradually making inroads into school uniforms in recent years.
The survey of attitudes to school uniforms amidst men and women aged 20-50 drew varied results.
Regarding the issue of trousers making their way into female school uniforms, 37.8% “strongly approved” of trousers for girls, 40.3% indifferently approved, yielding a total of some 80% supporting trousers over skirts.
The division of opinion between the sexes on the issue is fairly pronounced: 88.4% of women approved of trousers versus 69.8% of men. Older age ranges were more likely to support trousers.
Reasons given for preferring trousers varied from “because it’s cold” to “as a precaution against chikan.” Reasons such as “there’s no reason to limit the choice to skirts” and “it’s better to wear trousers than end up wearing something under your skirts.”
Those demanding schoolgirls remain skirted offered up such dubious reasons as “you can wear tights or leggings so there’s no need,” “it’s not feminine” and “skirts are cuter.”
86.8% of respondents reported attending a school which had a uniform, a perhaps unexpectedly low figure. Of these, over 60% reported “liking” the uniforms in some capacity, with 11.5% greatly enamoured of them.
Actual schoolgirls were not included in the survey, but in general it seems they approve of skirts, often the shorter the better; it should also be noted that it is actually head teachers (and the school uniform fashion industry) who have the final say.
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No we can't
Obama said, Yes we can!
WELL OBAMA IS NOT THE KING OF JAPAN, HE'S GONNA NEED MORE THAN A VILLAGE THAT HAPPENS TO HAVE THE SAME NAME AS HIM
Air Gear says otherwise.
Jetset Radio Future > Air Gear :)
We must find this 80% and reeducate them.
With our fists if need be
There is some sort of pun to be made there about the reeducation of this 80%, and whether or not they would be wearing skirts when we do it
Schoolgirls that head teachers have the final say?
Oh wait, I read that wrong. Damn subconscious.
Obama ain't a village, it's a city with a sizable population.
I say we abolish skirts. Just let 'em wear bloomers. There's a saying: pantsu janai kara hazukashikunai mon
Don't worry even if schoolgirls stat wearing pants in real life they will still all be wearing skirts in anime. Just like they still all wear school swimsuits and bloomer.
President Kuroko said "Yes we can! (have skirts)"
I'm for whatever Koroko wants! I love that Japan's ladies look like ladies!! Japs have the School-Girl uniform and Americans have the "Cheerleader" outfits...what's the common thread?
SHORT Skirts that guys have a chance of panty watching!
If it's not broke don't fix it.
Choudenjibo-sama, aka Sayyakuno Electromaster aka Onee-sama showed us that we may have both !
Pants should never exist in the first place
I approve of mini skirts.
Ass We Can!!!
I'm sorry... dunno why... but I just had the random urge to find you and smack you upside the head
Is this the change we can believe in?
As long our shows still feature skirts, I'm cool with it. Although peeping toms would have less chances now in trains...
This will certainly increase the amount of guys who agree that 2D > 3D
Well skirts should be longer though...
Hmmm what about changing up the regs for certain grade levels?
... yeah I got nothing.
Why does it seem like the choices for against seem so perverted putting on my "normal person" thinking cap and the choices for the change seem so reasonable...
Taking off the "normal person" thinking cap I'm gonna be sad to see this go if and when it does. This will deprive so many people in the present as well as the future of their dreams :(
Give the Schoolgirls what they Want! The shorter the Better!
what if the schoolgirls wants trousers?
well i will miss the skirts...
I'm all for free choice. Imagine yourself being forced(or forbidden) into wearing skirt just because you happen to be of a particular gender, that can't be good. So if they want trousers give them trousers, I can't imagine running with a skirt on anyways. I will miss the eye candies but that's a sacrifice I am willing to make as long as they are happy with it.
I agree with this, while I'm all for normalizing wearing pants, I don't want it to ever become taboo for women to wear a skirt.
That's only creating another gender role.
These girls are asking to wear pants/trousers, not being forced into a gender roles of someone saying "skirts are not for females". Not only do I encourage this, but lord knows a girl has the right to not wear a skirt if she doesn't want to.
What reason is there to go against this? Establishing gender roles? A fetish for largely underage schoolgirls? Let's keep the loli thing 2d people we don't need to be looking up little kid's skirts and we certainly don't need to be forcing it upon children.
If you have a fetish for real life underage schoolgirls that's your own business, but please don't force it upon the children.
@Anon 18:07
It doesn't seem fair to force females to wear skirts. Personally, I'm in favor of females wearing skirts; the shorter, the better.
But slacks can be good, too. My ex-girlfriend* had a pair of yellow slacks which showed off her cute little butt oh-so-well.
*Yes, it ended badly for me. She dumped 25-year-old me for a 40-year-old lifeguard with a cool sports car. No, she's not Japanese.
All Hail Short Skirt!!!
All hail flu in winter!
Go yourself outside with a skirt in a cold winter and then say that again...
Does anyone but me see a more symbolic meaning behind the whole switch from skirts to trousers thing? I mean, if this has worked this long why is it suddenly so important to change it? Also, I don't think this works against chikan since they can still grope (maybe not as easily if the victim is wearing a (rather tight) belt?
OH FUCK, I KNEW IT!! Curse my Cassandra vision!!
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/08/06/skirts-high-fashion-amongst-japanese-men/
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/12/05/the-art-of-anal-onanism/
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/05/16/boy-ranch-outrage-dating-service-has-men-as-livestock/
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/12/11/60-of-japanese-women-turning-into-men/
(and that last one kind of makes it a dead ringer, doesn't it...)
Actually, if it's Cassandra from SC, then Cassandra Vision's aaaallll ooooo-kaaaaayyy.. :3
I guess they are trying to prevent perverts from looking up 13 year old girls skirts?
So instead the perverts will pants the girls. Great solution.
But what type of Pants would Japanese girls want to use?
Anon 13:02 has a point... It may even become a common fetish to pants women.
Preventing perverts from looking up 13 year old girls skirts? Instead of innocent pantsu looking there will be more chikan.
Skirts are Awesome, I can't believe this is happening! and They will look like sea sailors! (*´Д｀)/
Even if trousers were an option, you'd be surprised how many girls would still wear a skirt (even in the dead of winter). Only the more butchy girls would actually wear the trousers. Plus Japan has been getting some fatty fat schoolgirls lately from all the Mickey D's and so there's no need to force their cellulite onto the view of populace.
Looking like sea sailors is awesome.
Enjoy the new and improved sailor fetish.
you just hit a very new level of gay.
You speak through it's a bad thing.
This is a sad, sad day.
Agreed
Skirts are dying everywhere.
I can't even remember the last time I saw a girl using one, and I live IN BRAZIL.
@#&%&%@$%
I hate jeans.
You aren't the only one anon. ;_;
3 and counting...
I hat jeans, but I only like long skirts so I guess I'm not really part of this movement you have here; but good luck anyway.
there is only ever one anon
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Well look at the good side. Jeans allow you to get an opinion if the girl has a nice ass or not. Actually now that i think maybe that's why girls in Brazil wear them so much. Girls in Brazil are obsessed on showing they have a nice ass more than anything. There ass is more important that there face to them.
Japanese girls can win in cuteness, nice hair and a thin delicate body but they are not that good in the ass department. Maybe wearing trousers isn't a good idea for them. Skirts flatter them more.
Well in last 8 yaers of my life i saw only ONE women who does not wear trousers most of time...