Gaijin Smash: The Pants Club (May 17/07)

[Chrome Newfie]

Article Link: The Pants Club (http://www.gaijinsmash.net/archives/the_pants_club.phtml)

OK, so you have what you describe as a perfect opportunity to execute some psychological conditioning on (presumably) impressionable young minds, and you use it to try and get Japanese schoolgirls to put ON pants.

The young-teen boy I once was demands you turn in your Man Card, now. Hell, the barely-legal-to-drink guy I once was seconds it.

(I kid, I kid. ;))

[stsparky]

Heh. I wish you were teaching down in Kumamoto to get my niece to wear pants.

To help explain the gender confusion thing though. I think NHK recently had a show where a tomboy was refusing to wear anything but a boy's uniform for her first year in Middle School. She breaks down come summer and wears a summer dress - just when her teacher has some of her boy pals wear a skirt to show her it can be done.

[羽之助]

I wish I could go to school in a kilt.

(I am able to, but I would have to procure a kilt first.)

Anyway, the first half of the Pants Club entry has just become my reading topic for tonight's Advanced English class. I'll let you all know how it goes.

[Plekto]

"I'm not talking about long skirts either, I mean I've seen girls wearing skirts so short in winter, that you can actually see how many babies they've aborted."
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Best laugh I've had all week. That's Az at his finest. :)

[Yang]

Skirt as part of the regular uniform is not limited to japan...in here, school girls also go with short skirt, and in some cases these skirts are that short that you can even see their soul :S

I fairly believe that in some countries of south america...girls must go with skirt at school...but a few, after i graduate from HS....some girls started to break the rules of HS.... and a lot now go with pants at school...so i see a lot of "pants club" in here... i'm not surprised at all...it's kind of common thing in here.

Oh...and if it's too cold in here...girls can actually go with pants at school if they want to...

[erbiumfiber]

At my daughter's international school in Tokyo, they had the opportunity to wear pants after a certain date. A few tomboy middle school girls did it, but that was it. Girls can wear tights (I've seen quite a few do so) and also choose to wear their skirt a normal length (say, a couple of inches above the knee) so they can choose to be warm if they want to (I wear skirts all year long, even on very cold days and often when I'm not at work). However, they ENJOY being provocative. There's a real feeling of power that girls know they have over guys when they're wearing really tight, really short skirts with socks (not tights) so maximum skin exposure.

And then they wonder why there is such a fetish over school uniforms...

[Eddie Echoplex]

Yeah, a friend of mine saw (in New Year's Eve) a girl wearing a hot pink skirt somewhere in Akihabara.

Hot. Pink.

Damn, now that's just wanting to blast some eyeballs.

[Roxie]

I went to a private Christian school where all the girls had to wear skirts, but we were allowed to wear shorts/stockings underneath.

[Hatsumomo]

I went to good ol' public school where I wore jeans every damn day. I don't wear skirts or dresses unless it's a special occasion.

[CrazyAce86]

^

Pretty much me. I never wore shorts to school, let alone skirts. I wear skirts mostly during the summer around the house or if I'm bumming somewhere, but never-ever in school. (I wear the long, loose skirts. Or I will, as soon as I can find my damn slip.)

That being said, I do wonder how they're able to get away with it. I mean, that's sticking out isn't it? Wouldn't they be in big trouble for that? (Which sounds mean to say, but I think everyone knows what I mean. Isn't conformity a big issue in schools?)

[Fred]

When I lived in Japan, I knew this guy (my boss’s boss’s boss) who was a short, thin, hairy American of Italian descent. I think he was in his late 40’s. I remember that he had big sideburns and could speak something like seven languages fluently.

I saw him once walking down the main tourist street in Nara wearing a junior high-school girl outfit. He had on the sailor blouse, the short skirt, droopy white socks, and penny loafers.

That was more than 10 years ago and I still have not recovered.