Sunday, 08 June 2008

• It's Not Who He Is, It's What He Wears...

  (Also posted earlier this week on my Livejournal..)

   I'm just going to let this out--I have a thing for guys in uniform. (Don't ask me what kind of thing, sheesh)
  
  
  
  Oops, wrong kind of uniform....hahaha, sorry.
  
  
  Seriosly, I do. But I don't think I'm weird. I believe a lot of girls actually have this thing. 
  
  Obviously, a lot of Japanese people do. And not only girls. Mostly guys. I don't know what it is, but a person in a uniform just...makes them sexy or sometimes sexier. To me, seeing a person in a uniform is like seeing them dressed up for something special, something out of the ordinary, and it makes my heart race. Well, I don't mean uniforms like what the workers at McDonalds or Kmart wearor something. (Although, I know a lot of Japanese girls find guys in some convenience store uniforms hot) It's gotta be formal uniforms, close to military types. The more formal the uniform, even better. ::red red red:: 
  
  I guess my obsession for the opposite sex in uniform really proves how Japanese I am. People in Japan just LOVE uniforms. I mean, hello~ we have a whole branch within the sex industry in Japan devoted to costumes that involve uniforms (I mean, I'm talking schoolgirls, nurses, flight attendants, office ladies, shrine mikos...you name it!) If you've ever heard of these "imekuras" or Image-Clubs in Japan, that's what I'm talking about. I wonder if they have any of these imekuras devoted to women customers...hmm...well, the closest thing to it is I guess the schoolboy cafes. But pffffft, nothing compared to what the men get. Haha. 
  
  I mean the uniform fetish has been around for ages.
  
  Taking a look at the connection between anime and uniforms...it's everywhere!!!! Right? I mean, a lot of times, anime/manga depict a somewhat everyday sort of situation, so...obviously, a lot of the charcaters will be dressed in school uniforms. I guess for fans like me who live in not Japan feel a sort of admiration towards these charcaters in anime or manga and love cosplaying them because you get to wear things like their uniforms. It's so...out of the ordinary for us. That's probably what makes cosplaying so much fun. I wonder how the Japanese cosplayers feel about cosplaying charcaters with uniforms...I mean most of them should be used to wearing those things, right? Well, I guess that's not true every time, since many students in Japan have a different attitude towards school uniforms. I mean, some girls in Japan try testing into the school just because they like their uniform. It's that important for them. 
  
  They have like books in Japan that capture every highschool girls' uniforms. The book below is probably for some otaku guys to drool over, but more informative books like these actually exist in Japan so girls can look at the schools' uniforms and choose which school they might want to apply to. Crazy, no? 
  
  And there's some other books I found on Amazon Japan that are just eye-candy for myself. Hahaha. They actually sell The Complete Men in Uniform Encyclopaedia. Sheesh. And some other smut like "Seifuku Danshi" which have bishi-boys dressed up in different uniforms (even chef uniforms and trash collector uniforms!) and ranking them!
  
  
  
  
  This book's subtitle is believe it or not, "How to Make your Prince with a Uniform." And it's a series! They have other books. 
  
  
  
   
  
  
  So I wondered....what uniforms do I like in the anime world?  Since uniforms are such a large part of the Japanese culture, I'm sure many of these manga artists put a good portion of their thought into their characters' uniforms. Especially if you want people to friggin read your story. I mean, seriously if I were to read a story I would like to see the hot charcaters in hot clothes, no? It's something that compliments these characters' hotness. 
  
  And you know what else I realized about my thing that I have for guys in uniform? 
  
  It's so much hotter to see a group of guys in uniform, than just one guy in uniform. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  See? 
  
  I don't know why that is, maybe it's because it shows power? Their elite status from the rest? 
  
  But one thing's for sure...when I get to Japan, I'm going to be surrounded by students in uniforms...::sigh:: ahhh...it's going to be great.

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