During the period, female students generally wore Japanese clothes except for the nobles and teachers of female students; but from the latter half of the Taisho period, increasing number of schools adopt sailor suits as their school uniforms to replaced the pleated skirt style.
女性は華族や女子教育にあたる教員など一部を除きもっぱら和服であったが、大正時代後期から、女学校の制服にそれまでの袴に代えて洋服であるセーラー服が採用される例が増える。