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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 20th19th-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), which continued to be seen in the west till at least the 1920s with Sears offering over a dozen variants (including some for adult women), 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.
 
Sailor-suit uniforms may be a vehicle for [[Fan Service]] as well, as the uniform skirts are often depicted as being [[Magic Skirt|unrealistically short]]. This alteration is so common that it is rarely commented on or questioned, though it may be off-putting to those who are not used to anime or manga based media. Uniforms may be altered in other ways to [[Nonuniform Uniform|distinguish certain characters]], [[Custom Uniform of Sexy|especially ones considered particularly beautiful]].
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