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   School woos students, parents with Taisho-era sailor suits   
   The Yomiuri Shimbun   
      
   Students at a Kyoto girls school dressed in schoolgirl sailor suits at an   
   explanatory meeting for prospective students and their parents on Saturday,   
   after research showed that the school was the first in the country to   
   introduce them.   
      
   The Heian Jogakuin St. Agnes School in Kamigyo Ward re-created the uniforms   
   that the nation's schools first adopted during the Taisho era (1912-1926).   
      
   An investigation by Okayama-based school uniform manufacturer Tombow Co.   
   confirmed that the school introduced the uniforms in November 1920--earlier   
   than the Fukuoka Jogakuin school in Fukuoka, whose 1921 introduction of the   
   uniform was previously thought to have been the first.   
      
   The navy dresses with large collars and ribbons were said to be so popular   
   at the time that some girls wanted to attend the school just so they could   
   wear them.   
      
   "They are just like the old girls' uniforms that I've seen on television. I   
   want to try one on," a 12-year-old applicant to the integrated middle and   
   high school school said after seeing two girls wearing replicas of the old   
   uniforms.   
      
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