Rules, rules, rules

[dorchadas]

As promised, here are some of the rules that Suzugamine students sign up for when they attend:

• Obviously, they have to wear uniforms. It's all mandated--skirts, shirts, shoes (two kinds) and even official socks with the school seal of them. Winter and summer versions of the uniform. And yes, some of them do hike their skirt up to Revolutionary

Comments

[q99]

That sounds unusually feminist for a Japanese story.

-Hair cannot be colored, dyed, permed, styled, curled, braided, be-ribboned, or above the top of the head. Any student who naturally has brown or curly hair is required to file a "curly hair report" with the school office, otherwise "there may be difficulties." I am not making this up. -

Oh yea, I can't count the number of times in manga when a character has to explain their hair color, and almost always they get picked on for it anyway as a plot point. Didn't know the curled or braided parts but it doesn't surprise me.

I've even heard of an American kid at a Japanese school being told by the teacher he should die his hair black.

[dorchadas]

One of the kids at Suzugamine is half-Russian (and takes almost completely after her Russian mother), and she's allowed to have blond hair with no trouble. So they don't go that far, at least.

I don't know what the other girls say about her, though.

The braided thing is weird, because ~50 years ago, if you were a schoolgirl with long hair it had to be in braided pigtails.