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You've [[Seen It a Million Times]]. The widely held belief that Roman Catholic school girls are sexy and/or promiscuous by their very nature. (After all, how else do you end up with all those [[Naughty Nuns]]?) This perception is, of course, explicitly the child of an overlap between [[Fetish Fuel]] and [[Virginity Makes You Stupid]]. Any accurate resemblance to reality is purely accidental.
As Roman Catholicism teaches that sex is to be strictly reserved for marriage, it is easy for non-Catholics to [[Did Not Do the Research|assume]] that Catholic children are almost never taught about sexuality in a way that promotes an informed understanding of themselves and their world. This feeds into an idea that since they supposedly know nothing of these things, seducing them would be a lot easier than seducing more 'enlightened' girls who 'know better'.
Alternatively, even those who know differently may feel that a Catholic girl striving to be innocent is a [[Forbidden Fruit|desirable]] [[Nature Adores a Virgin|virgin]], who is a greater challenge to seduce, and thus a "greater prize" if she [[Peer Pressure Makes You Evil|caves under pressure.]] Or else there's the notion (sometimes [[Truth in Television]] but more often wishful thinking, given the fetish-fantasy nature of the trope) that a seemingly chaste schoolgirl may actually be a plain old-fashioned [[Hypocrite]], only going through the ''motions'' of chastity and religiosity for the benefit of parents and teachers, similarly to [[Seemingly-Wholesome Fifties Girl|another trope somewhere around here]], and who is just itching for a chance to [[Naughty by Night|reveal her less-than-religious side the moment no one's looking.]] All that repression leading to a simmering cauldron of typical teenage hormones just looking for a chance to boil over in a plethora of exciting ways in an attempt to rebel.
And of course for some there's good old [[Nostalgia Filter|nostalgia]], as plenty of Catholic school alumni can fondly remember their own hormonal teenage years.
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When this outfit shows up in films and TV shows, it's almost always done through [[Dawson Casting]]. Likewise, when it's done by [[Sexy Schoolwoman|fully-grown women]], it's almost always a case of [[Fan Service]] in action.
In Britain, where the trope is not associated with Roman Catholicism to the same extent (due to uniforms being much more common, even in public schools), this look is known as the "[[St Trinian's]] Girl", after a series of [[Boarding School]] movies by that name. Related, but not identical, to the sailor-suited Japanese schoolgirl fetish, [[Joshikousei]].
Slowly becoming part of the "once common but no longer generally required" subtrope of [[Hollywood Dress Code]], since many real Catholic schools change their uniforms to unisex khakis and polo shirts.
A subtrope of [[Adults Dressed as Children]].
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== Comic Books ==
* An issue of the New X-Men had [[X-23]] dressed in a provocative [http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh78/ColonelGreen/LJ51.jpg school girl outfit].
* ''[[Empowered]]'': While these girls are indeed beautiful, they got their looks by [[Deal with the Devil|selling their souls]]. Yes, all of them.
* ''Xombi'': Young superheroine Catholic Girl, and by implication, her ally and mentor, Nun Of The Above (who is presumably a former Catholic School Girl).
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* Tom Stahl's wife does a cheerleader routine before having sex with him in ''[[A History of Violence]]''.
* ''[[The Kentucky Fried Movie]]'': This is the entire point of the [[Show Within a Show]] parody sexploitation film ''Catholic High School Girls in Trouble''. The clothing doesn't actually make an appearance. Because there is very little clothing involved.
* ''[[D.E.B.S.]]'': The entire point of the movie (well that and [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot]]), a tiny-budget film that follows this trope. A blurb for the film: "Plaid-skirted schoolgirls are groomed by a secret government agency to join an elite cadre of spies."
* ''[[Cruel Intentions]]'': Both Sarah Michelle Gellar and Reese Witherspoon do the Catholic Schoolgirl thing.
** This is parodied by Mia Kirshner's character in ''[[Not Another Teen Movie]]''.
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* ''[[Kill Bill]]'' : Chiaki Kurayama as Gogo Yubari really was the perfect [[Ax Crazy|naughty]] Asian schoolgirl (although dressed in the Catholic attire rather than the more appropriate seifuku). It's a shame she had to get stabbed in the brain with two nails.
* The ''[[St Trinian's]]'' series is set in British [[Boarding School|Boarding Schools]] for young ladies. While all the younger students are crazy-evil the sixth formers (aged 16-18 (legal age in the UK being 16)) all wear their uniforms as small as possible.
* ''[[Harry Potter]]'': in the increasingly rare moments when the girls in are actually in their uniforms.
* Referenced in ''A Life Apart: Hasidism in America'' when one Hasidic woman says that the Hasidic school uniform skirts extend at least four inches below the knee and claims that the longest Catholic school skirts are five inches above the knee. She's obviously ill-informed.
* Diane, in ''[[Trainspotting]]''. Subverted in the fact that Renton has no idea she's underage when she picks him up (out of uniform, natch) at a club.
* ''[[Mallrats]]'': Tricia Jones, the 15-year-old sex researcher, dons a schoolgirl uniform.
* ''[[Dogma]]'': Salma Hayek as Serendipity is wearing a schoolgirl uniform and working as a stripper when the protagonists first meet her.
* ''[[Bedazzled]]'' (2000) Elizabeth Hurley's [[Satan Is Good|Devil]] wears a schoolgirl outfit, as one of a whole series of Fanservice-type costumes.
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== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[Alias (TV series)|Alias]]'': Jennifer Garner dressed as a Catholic schoolgirl.
* Mischa Barton did it in ''[[The OC]]''. Not surprisingly, it was Sweeps Week.
* On ''[[The Office]]'' (USA), Michael comments on the hot picture of a Catholic schoolgirl hanging near Stanley's desk.
{{quote|'''Stanley:''' "That's my daughter. She goes to private school and I'm taking the picture down right now."}}
* ''[[Grange Hill]]'': Mostly [[Averted Trope|averted]]. The students (except for the sixth form, 17 & 18 y/o) all wear school uniforms, but as they're played by actual school-aged children, they dress appropriately in actual school uniforms. A few of the 15 and 16 y/o girls do seem to get away with wearing high-heeled Mary-Janes, but that's the extent of it.
** The school teaching staff, however, held a sponsored "teachers dress in your old uniform" day to raise a little extra money for essential equipment. Two of the three female teachers wore their old school uniforms, of which one actually looked too little girl and cutesy to count for this trope, but the second was practically was a textbook definition of the trope. (The third female teacher came in her old-fashioned "cap and gown" teaching attire from when she started in an old Grammar School.)
* ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'': In "House's Head," he has a hallucination in a sensory deprivation tank of Cuddy in a schoolgirl outfit. [[You Can Leave Your Hat On|She isn't in it for long though]].
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* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' had Time Lady companion Romana wearing a very ''[[St Trinian's]]'' style uniform in the "City of Death" serial. Lalla Ward, judging by interviews and the production notes, came up with the idea and had no concept it was a fetish.
* ''Lingo'': [[Ms. Fanservice|The female co-host]] of this [[Game Show]] once wore a classic schoolgirl uniform.
* In ''[[That '70s Show|That 70's Show]]'', Donna goes to a Catholic high school and has to wear the uniform for perfectly legitimate reasons. Doesn't stop the boys from going crazy over it.
{{quote|DONNA: Man, what is with you guys and this uniform?
FEZ: It makes us want to corrupt you. }}
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** Abby has also been known to dress up like that.
* ''[[Gossip Girl]]'': most of the girls have a very...[[Stripperiffic|unique]]...take on the Constance Billiard uniform. One reviewer commented that the St Jude's boys must feel like they're on the set of a porno every single day.
* ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'':
** Subverted by Molly Shannon's "Mary Katherine Gallagher" character. Mary Katherine is a Catholic schoolgirl, all right, and wears the standard uniform, but though she may at times imagine ''herself'' to be hot, the other characters (and the viewers) certainly don't.
** Although Hogwarts, of the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' franchise, is obviously not a Catholic school, one memorable ''SNL'' sketch spoofing the Potter series featured guest host Lindsay Lohan as Hermione and played up the uniform fetish aspect.
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'''Jackie:''' I discovered boys. Then I was hiking up that short skirt...
'''Danny:''' Great, now I have to think about you in that uniform all day. }}
* In one episode of ''[[Boy Meets World]]'', Shawn gets excited when he finds on the subway a group of Catholic schoolgirls who "ditched their nun" (and yes, they were wearing the uniform).
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* [[Shakira]] and her backup dancers in the video to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2xNoJUtEFI Pure Intuition].
* The video for Sleigh Bells' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fheYx_ZPU18 Infinity Guitars].
* Lyn-Z Way of [[Mindless Self Indulgence]] often wears a slightly-less [[Stripperiffic]] version of this outfit during live shows.
* The [[Hugo Award|Hugo nominated]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1IxOS4VzKM Fuck Me], [[Ray Bradbury]], courtesy of Rachel Bloom, plays this trope for all it's worth. [http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/08/rachel-bloom-ray-bradbury/ Happy Birthday, Ray!]
* [[t.A.T.u.|t.a.T.u]]'s "All the Things She Said" video, which crosses this trope with [[Schoolgirl Lesbians]].
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== Toys ==
* [http://www.herobuilders.com/08.htm This Sarah Palin School Girl action figure.]
== Video Games ==
* ''Varicella'': If you look in palace courtesan Miss Sierra's wardrobe, a Catholic school uniform is one of her fetishistic outfits.
* ''[[Escape From St. Mary's|Escape From St Marys]]'': The group of girls you talk to wear uniforms without using this trope, but the fashion show features students modeling uniforms to the sounds of "I'm Too Sexy."
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