We wore a blouse underneath and a neck tie . The material of the jumper-skirt was plaid and in the colors of mint green, baby pink, and purple. The blouse had puffy sleeves and was in mint green in color. The colors represented the school, its beliefs, and its standards. .
The school had a code to follow regarding wearing the uniform. The uniform must be below the knee and the neck tie must be worn at all times. The school even had a standard on how long your bangs can be. Everyone almost had to look the same except the difference in gender. .
The decision of the school for uniformity was to get rid of competition of fashion trends among students, its distraction, and its unimportance, but I thought otherwise. As Amelia Bloomer once said, "For we know that in dress, as in all things else, we have been and are slaves." (Harper 100). I felt that being in a uniform meant no identity, no individuality, and that everyone needs to conform to one standard alone, so that things will create equality amongst. Being in a uniform meant no choice and decision, and that we just have to obey the authority. .
Since I stayed in the same private school and still wore a uniform throughout my high school years, there was only two differences: one was the style of the uniform, and the other was that we could now wear casual attire in school. .
The style of the high school uniform was a plaid skirt in the same school colors, the same mint green color of blouse, only it was a sailor blouse this time, and the neck tie now had the school's patch. The difference in this style was to create a distinctive look in the midst of a campus where elementary and high school students were combined. As Michiko Kakutani said, "The odd thing is everyone is dressed exactly alike" (Kakutani 128). The difference in style gave a distinction in which they are classified in what style of uniform they were wearing. Superiority was present through the difference in style of a uniform.