Nature is stupid. We will create a new world with the only necessary thing, concrete!

Sometimes in winter/summer, it gets abnormally hot/cold. What do you do at a time like this? You dress appropriately, of course. For some reason, schools and many people here have decided only to change wardrobes when the season changes, not when the weather changes. This can most easily seen if you ever want to steal girls’ underwear from poke your head around a school. Actually… never mind that. Go anywhere. Students here never seem to actually go to school, they just wear the uniform.

All Japanese people like BDSM (don’t search this)

The summer school uniform, being lighter, is used until the school decides to tell the students it’s time to change. There’s freaky weather, winter arrives early (according to nature) and so it’s abnormally cold. What does the school say? Fuck ‘em. The kids don’t get to decide when they are allowed to switch uniforms. This same thing happens in the spring. The students shed the winter coats, not according to the weather or even the farmers’ almanac, but according to the demands of principals and superintendents.

This doesn’t just happen in schools, many people do this as well. The thing about everyone else is that it’s not so prominent; more long sleeve shirts, longer skirts, sweaters, turtlenecks, and thigh high boots are seen in the colder times of the year in Japan, but you can still people wearing long sleeve shirts in other seasons as well.

The non creative students wear uniforms like these 2.
You don’t want to see the uniforms of the creative students.

Part of the reason that it doesn’t seem so prominent of a change in the non-student population is that the spring/fall clothes don’t really leave their spots in the closet. If it’s a little colder today, you can wear a long sleeve shirt. If it’s a little warmer than usual, you can wear short sleeves. This blurs the line, but there’s still a retarded monkey fish squirrel that drew that crooked line in the sand. And, whether we like it or not, a line is a line.

But why was this line drawn? What’s the point? What purpose does it serve? These are questions to which there is no answer. Unfortunately, there isn’t a God of the weird Japanese custom gaps or an intelligent theory of Japanese season changes. So short of kidnapping a maid and making her undergo “extreme interrogation techniques” (i.e. a facial and tummy tuck) it looks like there’s not going to be a definitive answer as to why this occurs.