| Chima jeogori | |
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| Korean name | |
|---|---|
| Hangul | 치마저고리 |
| Revised Romanization | Chima jeogori |
| McCune–Reischauer | Ch'ima chŏgori |
Chima jeogori (Korean: 치마저고리) refers to a traditional outfit for Korean women, which consists of a chima skirt and jeogori top. It is not a national costume per se, but a form of hanbok, the traditional Korean form of dress. Similarly, men wear baji jeogori: baji (baggy pants) and jeogori.
At the end of the 19th century, the tongchima (통치마), seamless one-piece short skirt, came out for convenience. School girls used to wear a white jeogori and a black tongchima in modern educational institutions. This fashion gradually faded out in South Korea while revived and continues in North Korea.[1]
In Japan, some ethnic Korean minority schools use a girls' uniform that is based on tongchima. This form of chima jeogori is modified into white shirt and shorter ankle length black or blue dress. [citation needed]
The uniforms sometimes made them target for hate crimes. Children wearing them were sometimes beaten, insulted, or even had their skirts slashed with knives [ja]. This led to schools eventually issuing two sets of uniforms: a chima jeogori for inside the school, and more typical blazers and skirts for outside the school (Japanese: 第2制服, lit. 'second uniform').[2][3]
