Stereotyping Thai students in Bangkok
An article appeared on the website of Cocunuts Bangkok about the fact that the clothing of Thai students is very fashionable among Japanese young ladies. The article mentions a mail order company that offers these sexy clothes (see photo).
How is that exactly? Well, Thai college students' uniforms were voted the sexiest clothes in the world in a 2012 poll in Japan. The fashion world in Japan jumped on this and now there is a collection of clothing on the market that is designed based on the uniform clothing of Thai students.
Coconuts Bangkok has previously published an article about uniform clothing, in which a stereotyping of the uniform clothing of Thai students at the various universities was made, which I would like to share with you.
Rankit = Sexy
Rangsit students have the shortest skirt and tightest top they could find with high-heeled shoes.
Silpakorn = Artsy
Famous as the best school to study art, Silpakorn girls wear sneakers that they probably painted themselves with a carrying case that carries the brushes and pencils
Thammasat = Girly
Thammasat girls keep it a little frumpy, with curls in their hair and a pencil skirt that reaches about six centimeters above the knees.
Chula = Conservative
Chula freshman girls are required to wear white sneakers and white socks with a long pleated navy blue skirt,
Assumption = materialistic
The latest designer handbags, shoes and accessories can be found at the Assumption students. Note: the skirt length is slightly shorter than Thammasat.
Bangkok = Creative
At the University of Communication Arts, the girls wear the short pleated skirt and it seems that this outfit is the most popular in Japan.
They are stereotypes of the Thai students in Bangkok, not every student will recognize themselves exactly in these characterizations.
Source: Coconuts Bangkok
My wife is a former Rangsit Uni. Student. And can you tell, her former uniform looks good on her! (Y)
My ex had also studied at Rangsit Uni. I can agree Niek sexy uniform.
Maybe a friend of your wife, her name is Aom wipadipakdee.
My granddaughter is studying at Chula. The first-years are obliged to come by public transport or bus transport arranged by the universities. The male first-years also have a very strict dress code. If you want to see highly disciplined youth, you should visit the huge campus. You can see that the students move in rows as we knew them in primary school.
They also have to do volunteer work for their curriculum. My granddaughter dug latrines in a primary school in Nakhon Phanom and helped build a library in Ranong. Many also go to the US during their annual vacation to work at McDonalds. Organized through the university by the way. They do that because it upgrades their CV when applying for a job.
So universities are more than short skirts, by the way in many universities short skirts are taboo.
According to an article on Thaivisa forum, things are a bit less innocent than the above article suggests: http://bangkok.coconuts.co//2014/10/09/thai-college-uniforms-become-japanese-cosplay-fetish
The article about this appeared earlier this week. You should read the comments… things are a bit different there than on our forum here. 🙂
That article was the direct reason for my posting. The only thing I found interesting was that school clothes of Thai students are fashion for Japanese girls.
Coconuts couldn't explain the term "cosplay festish" and I also searched, but couldn't find exactly what that means. At most I have a hunch, but anyway, it was about the different stereotypes of Bangkok Unis
@Gringo searched for cosplay festish and this came out.
cosplay japanese english for ”costume play”
Cosplay is a form of performance art in which participants use costumes and accessories to portray a particular character or idea.
Fetish (fashion), an alternative style of fashion influenced by sexual fetishism
Let's just say that in certain forms of entertainment, the Japanese can be quite Kinky.
I have taught in Rangsit University and now teach in Silapkorn University. Both universities (and, to my knowledge, all other universities) have extremely detailed regulations regarding student attire, including hair style and nail polish color. These regulations do not correspond at all with the stereotypes in this article. And I also know why. Students (and female students in particular) don't care about these rules and adapt their uniforms to their own wishes. want to show their own individuality and also sometimes shock.
Personally, I think the wearing of uniforms by university students is outdated. But I have never won that discussion at my faculty in the past 8 years. I once did an experiment and asked students to come in their normal clothes on the understanding that they had to remember that they go to work and not to the disco. Everyone looked neat: no short skirts, no green hair, no orange nail polish, shirt tucked in, no t-shirts, etc.