Attire for a Japanese fireworks festival: Why does Miyuki (Shirogane) REALLY attend in school uniform?


Maybe related: [Attire for a Japanese summer festival: Why don't the boys
dress up for the summer festival while their dates
do?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/67619/attire-for-a-japanese-
summer-festival-why-dont-the-boys-dress-up-for-the-summe)

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This doesn't seem to be talked about in the anime or even in the manga. We
just see the 3 other student council peeps meeting up in the background of
Kaguya's thoughts:

S01E11:

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/eGbD0.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/eGbD0.jpg)

Chapter 44:

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/dhM34.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/dhM34.png)

This however is brought up in the movie:

Chika (Fujiwara) asks this.

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/lpqHY.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/lpqHY.jpg)

Miyuki responds claiming to always wanting to have awareness of being
president of their school's student council.

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/44bJf.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/44bJf.jpg)

Yu (Ishigami) asks (jokingly? semi-jokingly?) if it was because Miyuki didn't
have any fireworks attire or something.

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/6UDIT.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/6UDIT.jpg)

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/sRX3c.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/sRX3c.jpg)

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/6gXth.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/6gXth.jpg)

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Questions:

  1. Why does Miyuki REALLY attend the fireworks festival in school uniform? Seems like we can only speculate, but I'm wondering if perhaps some native Japanese or at least people familiar with Japanese culture will be able to shed some light here. Does Miyuki actually have no, what do you call it, yukata or something? Or what?

  2. It is indeed weird or something to attend the fireworks festival in a school uniform, right? Or what?




I guess it is simply a character thing for Shirogane. That is, the black
uniform (and the chain) more or less works as a symbol for him.

Realistically, boys wear only white shirts without the black jacket (like
[this image (top right)](https://www.ookuraya.jp/ktc_top.html)). It is just
too hot in Tokyo. So the answer to 2 is that it is already weird to wear the
black jacket in summer in the first place wherever he is. Being in school
uniform to watch fireworks is not common, but won't be that eye-catching.

The clothes Fujiwara wears is called
[yukata](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B5%B4%E8%A1%A3). In modern Japan,
people wear this in summer, especially for festive days (and note that
fireworks is a summer thing in Japan). What Ishigami(?) is wearing in the last
picture is called [jinbei](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%94%9A%E5%B9%B3),
which got popularity as summer wear more recently.




I guess it is simply a character thing for Shirogane. That is, the black
uniform (and the chain) more or less works as a symbol for him.

Realistically, boys wear only white shirts without the black jacket (like
[this image (top right)](https://www.ookuraya.jp/ktc_top.html)). It is just
too hot in Tokyo. So the answer to 2 is that it is already weird to wear the
black jacket in summer in the first place wherever he is. Being in school
uniform to watch fireworks is not common, but won't be that eye-catching.

The clothes Fujiwara wears is called
[yukata](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B5%B4%E8%A1%A3). In modern Japan,
people wear this in summer, especially for festive days (and note that
fireworks is a summer thing in Japan). What Ishigami(?) is wearing in the last
picture is called [jinbei](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%94%9A%E5%B9%B3),
which got popularity as summer wear more recently.

