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'''Sailor Fuku''' refers to the characteristic [http://fr.academic.ru/pictures/frwiki/83/Sailor-fuku_for_winter.jpg "sailor suit"] schoolgirl uniforms worn in Japan. Sailor fuku uniforms are actually based on late Victorian/early 20th-century "[[wikipedia:Victorian dress reform|rational dress]]" [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/File:Science_ofDress101Fig6.png girl's fashions] (themselves based on European naval uniforms), but the prevalence of sailor-suited school girls in anime, manga, and other forms of Japanese media show how iconic the sailor fuku is in Japan. This is true despite many Japanese schools having switched to more Western-patterned uniforms. However, there are some American schools that use Sailor Fuku.

 

Compare [[School Uniforms Are the New Black]], since some examples here have the uniform as their standard outfit.

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== Anime and Manga ==

* Though the central female characters of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' are actually ''junior'' high-schoolers, not only do they all wear sailor uniforms in their "civilian" lives, their Senshi uniforms seem to be clearly based on them as well; indeed, [[Captain Obvious|this is where the "Sailor" in the name comes from]]. This is later [[Justified Trope|justified]] when it is revealed that the sailor-suit concept comes from ancestral memories of the heroes' uniform, not vice-versa.

* Toune in ''[[Melody of Oblivion]]'', who goes around fighting Monsters wearing sailor fuku.

** On the other hand, a number of minor characters in the sengoku period refer to her "that strangely and scantily clad woman" as a result.

* ''[[Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch]]''

* ''[[.hack|.hack//]]'':

** In ''Tasogare no Udewa Densetsu'', one of the fetished-up outfits that Shugo discovers in a treasure chest is a sailor fuku.

* In ''[[Millennium Actress]]'' Chiyoko is often shown wearing a sailor fuku in the scenes depicting her childhood: unlike modern [[Fetish Fuel]] versions it's a genuine 1930s-era winter uniform made out of heavy wool for durability and cut with "room to grow" bagginess

 

* ''[[Kamen Rider Kabuto]]'': Tendou Juka, Tendou Souji's little sister, is a prime example. Some consider her an example of [[Lolicon]] pandering.

* Surprisingly, ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]''. In the episode "Court Martial", a young girl is wearing a futuristic sailor fuku. Humorusly enough, it looks like something Sailor Mercury would wear.

 

== Film ==

* The live-action adaptation of ''[[Blood: The Last Vampire]]'' has finally brought this fetish to the silver screen.

* [[Emily Browning]]'s character in ''[[Sucker Punch]]'' appears to do this.

 

== Music ==

* Chibi from [[The Birthday Massacre]] wears a sailor suit in the video for "Looking Glass".

 

== Video Games ==

* ''[[AIR]]'' is not set in a high school, but all the girls wear their uniforms almost all the time.

* ''[[Yoake Mae Yori Ruriiro na]]'' gives sailor uniforms to about half the haremettes; in an odd twist, [[First Girl Wins|poster girl]] Feena is among those that do not.

 

== Web Comics ==

* In ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', [[Raised by Wolves|Grace]] pictures herself and most other female characters wearing fuku in her school-related [[Dream Sequence]]. This is probably meant to imply that her impression of school up until that point came almost entirely [http://egscomics.com/?date=2007-05-23 from watching anime.] Judging by the design, it's specifically ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]''.

* The heroine of ''MAQ #41'' used to wear Japanese uniforms to school. Since she lives in the United States this was viewed as quite odd and helped make her a target for bullying.

 

== Web Original ==

* ''[[Sailor Nothing]]'', as well as Sailors Truth and Beauty, wear embellished versions of their school uniforms when they're in sailor form.

* [[Vocaloid]] Rin Kagamine wears a sailor fuku top, though it's sleeveless. Her [[Flip-Flop of God|twin brother / mirror image]] Len wears a sleeved one.

 

== Western Animation ==

* Katana, the (at first) girl Outsider in ''[[Batman: The Brave And The Bold|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]'', wore a sailor suit in Season 1. However, in Season 2, she ditched it for the classic costume of her comic book counterpart.

* [[The Prima Donna|Lily]] wears one in ''[[Kappa Mikey]]'', even though she actually is not a student.