訪問:Ken, Sam, Wing C
整理:Tracy

droppedImage長衫(或旗袍)是香港歷史最悠久的校服,也是很多傳統教會中學的校服。當中包括聖保羅男女中學、英華女校、聖士提反里中學、培道女子中學、真光中學、和協恩中學等。而這些學校往往被標簽為名校。長衫校服與名校形象的建構有甚麼關係?Cultazine找來香港一間以海軍藍色長衫為校服的女子中學,協恩中學的學生作了以下訪問。

Cultazine          :你喜歡你的校服嗎?

「協恩」學生妹:OK啦!

Cultazine          :我以前也是穿長衫上學的。

「協恩」學生妹:是嗎!你讀那一間?

Cultazine         : 真光中學。那時覺得穿起校服很不舒服,我常常要避免行路大步怕弄爆大腿兩側的長衫開叉位。學校時常會檢查我們有否弄爆開叉位的。

「協恩」學生妹:唉!(感同身受)我們也常常弄爆(開叉位)的。要是真的弄爆了便用大頭針暫時釘着。見到風紀便把雙手下垂於大腿兩側,便不易被發現爆口的了。

Cultazine          : 穿著校服外出,別人會認出你是「協恩」學生嗎?

「協恩」學生妹:不一定的。很多人以為我們(帶點自豪說)是St. Paul “Co-ed”(即聖保羅男女中學)。

Cultazine          : 別人對你的校服會否有些看法?

「協恩」學生妹:有人說過很難穿,很窄,限制了身體的活動範圍。

Cultazine          : 你認為學生為何要穿校服?

「協恩」學生妹:我想是學校想給我們壓力。穿著校服,我們就算在校外也要注意自己的行為表現,不可以到處遊玩。因為我們不知道途人何時會把我們的表現拍下,然後e-mail給學校。到那時侯,可能會受到學校公開的訓示。我真的不喜歡這樣。有時會覺得穿校服勁麻煩,夏天體育堂游泳後,我們被禁止在冲洗,只可更衣,而且那天必須穿底裙,以免身體弄濕校服。不過,對我來說,(校服的)壓力不是太大。對Form 6, Form 7便拍拖的姊姊比較大一點。但其實她們可以在拍拖前換上便服便可以吧!

Cultazine          : 那你認為學生(們)有必要穿校服嗎?

「協恩」學生妹:應該要。否則甚麼也可以做的了。

Sam 很大反應: 那即是由校服去規範和間接監察你的行為,而不是你自己決定甚麼可為?但是,人應該會按自己的原則、常理或者道德去自我判斷甚麼可為與不可為的。

那我倒未有想過。(年紀輕輕的小女孩,那會想這問題呢?)

很明顯,受訪者認為學生「們」整體是應該穿校服上課。但若果問題落到個人身上,答案將會如何?我們在相隔10分鐘後,轉了另一角度提問:

Cultazine          : 美國的學校不用穿校服的,你認為好嗎?

「協恩」學生妹:我覺得「超好」。可以隨意穿任何衣著上課。但如果有校服,便一定要洗熨好才可穿上上學,皺了又怕會捱駡。穿著校服不是甚麼都可以做。

Cultazine          : 在甚麼場合,別人會特別想分別出你們是哪間學校的學生?

「協恩」學生妹:校際比賽。勝出的學校,別人會想從校服認出所屬之學校,自然會對學校留下好印象。相反亦然。(想了想)還有,出外消費有很多學生優惠就要穿著校服才可享有的。

Cultazine          : 假如你就讀Band 3學校,但是個好學生,介意別人認出你的學校嗎?

「協恩」學生妹:如果自己「叻」,認出讀Band 3學校也無所謂。如果「唔叻」,我想讀那間學校也無所謂,他們都不想讀書。

在香港不同學校穿不同校服,在成績差異下,做成的學生「階級化」是可以斷伸下去影响社會的。影响是根深柢固的,長大以後有些大學生,也一樣會根據對方所讀的大學,學系,學科,以至師承那位老師(尤其是研究生),多於用自己的眼和心去判定對方的身份與個人價值。同樣,成人世界(一般而言)又會認為身為科學家會比一個身為文學家的「好」,因科學比文學「好」。這個「好」,在香港代表甚麼?其實我們是否由一套校服開始,從少無意識地開始了社會間的分化,甚至排斥?


The Longest History of School Uniform in HK

Interviewer:Ken, Sam, Wing C 

Writing:Tracy

Interviewee : Girl of Heep Yunn School

The cheongsam, one-piecec Chinese dress, is the longest history of school uniform in Hong Kong, and it is still the school uniform of some colleges with long history, such as Saint Paul’s Co-educational College, Ying Wah Girls’ School, St. Stephen’s Girls’ College, True Light Middle School and Heep Yunn School. Not only they are all Christian schools, but also they are labeled as ‘band one’ colleges. What is the relationship between the school image and the longest history of school uniform? Cultazine had an interview with the Girl of Heep Yunn School, and try to get some ideas on it.

Cultazine: Do you like your school uniform?

Heep Hunn’s girl: Well…so so.

Cultazine: Cheongsam is my school uniform also.

Heep Hunn’s girl: Oh, really! Where did you studied?

Cultazine: True Light Middle School. Big step on walking is prohibited when I dressed in cheongsam. I have to beware of my step while walking, to prevent the tearing of opening(裙叉)on the edge . We are always forced to pay attention on it by school surveying. 

Heep Hunn’s girl: Yeah!We ‘all’ always tear this part by big stepping. If we can’t fix it at school, we re-connect it by pins temporary. And if we see school prefect, we will cover this part by keeping our hands beside it. 

Cultazine: Can you be recognized as Heep Yunn’s girl by dressing uniform?

Heep Hunn’s girl: Sometimes. But sometimes people think that we are girls of St. Paul Co-educational College. (She is a bit proud of it .)

Cultazine: What do people think about your school uniform?

Heep Hunn’s girl: Someone thinks that it is hard to dress well, too tight and constrain our body’s movement.

Cultazine: Why (college) students have to wear school uniform?

Heep Hunn’s girl: It is a way that colleges giving students pressure. Whenever and wherever we dress our uniform, we have to conduct ourselves. We can’t play anywhere. It is because we don’t know when and who will take pictures of our behaviors in the street, and send to school by e-mail. We are worry that pictures would be shown to in the public. I really don’t like that. Sometimes, I feel so trouble about taking on my cheongsam. The day having swimming lesson, we are forced taking under-slip in order to keep clean and neat dressing on uniform. Moreover, taking shower after swimming is prohibited….To me, it is not much pressure of taking on my uniform, but the elder sisters (F.6 and F.7) in school who have romance after school. Actually, they can change their school uniforms before meeting their boy friends. 

Cultazine: Then, do you think students should dress on school uniform?

Heep Hunn’s girl: Yes we should, or anything could be happened.

Sam reponse  : That means, we are surveyed and conducted what we should do by dressing uniform, but ‘not’ by ‘ourselves’? However, human-being can realize and behave ourselves through our common sense, rules and moral.

Heep Hunn’s girl: Well, I’d never think about it.(She is still a little girl, Sam)

Obviously, interviewee thinks that ‘all students’ should wear school uniform. But what if it is an individual choice, Will she, as one of the students prefer wearing school uniform? We ask her 10mins. after the above questions. 

Cultazine: Students in the USA do not take any school uniform to school. What do u think about it?

Heep Hunn’s girl: Cool! Then, I can wear any cloth as I like. But for school uniform, we have to iron it till no wrinkle, or, we will be punished. We can not do anything as we like with our uniform.

Cultazine: What occasion, people want to distinguish whose student you are?

Heep Hunn’s girl: School competition. People want to know who is the winner, and give a good impression to his/her school. Vice versa….Also, people want to recognize we are student when we want to have some special offer to student only. 

Cultazine: If you were a student studying in the school of ‘band 3’, will you mind being recognized?

Heep Hunn’s girl: If I was ‘smart’, it doesn’t matter, If I was not ‘smart’, I think it also doesn’t matter, too.…. If they are not smart, I don’t think they care their studies and whose student they are.

In Hong Kong, almost every college represent  their difference by specific school uniform and also the academic records. It became an invisible education institution to classify the ‘class’ of student, and the class of social status. The effect of classification is deeply internalized to our ‘self’ through our daily lives, and became our ‘common sense’. Some people like to ‘know’ one’s personal value by the name of graduated university, the faculty or department, and the name of teacher, rather than ‘understand’ someone by what you ‘see’ and what you ‘think’. Did we start the social division or social exclusion unconsciously through a piece of uniform on our bodies, the ‘dressed bodies’?