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->''"Shorts to school? Man, you kids in [[{{Suburbia}} Maple Wherever]] just do whatever the hell you want, don't you?"''

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* Some jurisdictions offer a district-wide uniform option in order to assist students who are new to the neighborhood or have just transferred schools.

* Himari from ''Manga/OmamoriHimari'' keeps her "old" school uniform (or at least a different one) to warn demons who plan to attack Yuuto that she is there to defend him.

* Averted in the various ''PrettyCure'' series - none of the human transfer student girls are seen wearing (or even ''having'') their previous school's uniforms. [[Anime/FreshPrettyCure Setsuna]], [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Ellen]], [[Anime/DokiDokiPrettyCure Makoto]] and [[Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure Hime]] get a pass as they were from other worlds.

* There was an argument behind the scenes of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' as to whether the Maquis crew members should wear Starfleet uniforms or keep their outlaw garb. Ron Moore was pushing for the latter, but the former made more sense plotwise (why foster division when the crews are going to have to cooperate?), so they went with it. However, the Maquis crew did have special rank insignia since they weren't really officers.

* Makoto Kino in ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' wears an old school uniform throughout her entire middle school career and only switches over in high school. This is technically not so much due to lack of integration in the cast as the school not having one in [[HugeSchoolgirl her size]], but it does mirror the fact that, outside of the senshi, Makoto was an outcast in middle due to her height. Her school uniform had elements (long skirt, type of shoes) that were typically associated with a kind of young female delinquents, sukeban, that were prominent in during 70s-80s Japan. Indeed in early designs, Makoto was supposed to lead a gang of girls, and though she didn't she was still stereotyped this way by others. This lengthened skirt does not appear in the [[Series/PrettyGuardianSailorMoon live-action series]] as the sukeban wasn't as prominent anymore.

* Before coming to Australia following his parents' divorce, Michael Hutchence of INXS attended a private school in Hong Kong, and wore that uniform after relocating to Australia with his mother. He got beaten up his first day of school for being an "outsider", but a couple of other students came to his rescue. One of them was his future bandmate, Andrew Farriss.

* In ''VideoGame/CherryTreeHighComedyClub'', [[DubNameChange Vivian Bergman]]/Ravian Merry is a foreign transfer student who wears a different uniform from everyone else.

* A variation on this is what happens to Jun Manjyome in ''Anime/YuGiOhGX''. He's demoted to Ra Yellow, and decides to leave Duel Academy. After a rather long journey he comes back, but since he went to another school he counts as a transfer student and has to start in Osiris Red dorm. Rather than wearing the red outfit, Manjyome wears his own black coat.

* Kino Makoto in ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' wears an old school uniform throughout her entire junior high career and only switches over in high school. This is technically not so much due to lack of integration in the cast as the school not having one in [[HugeSchoolgirl her size]], but it does mirror the fact that, outside of the senshi, Makoto was an outcast in junior high due to her height. Her school uniform had elements (long skirt, type of shoes) that were typically associated with a kind of young female delinquents, sukeban, that were prominent in during 70s-80s Japan. Indeed in early designs, Makoto was supposed to lead a gang of girls, and though she didn't she was still stereotyped this way by others. This lengthened skirt does not appear in the [[Series/PrettyGuardianSailorMoon live-action series]] as the sukeban wasn't as prominent anymore.

* A variation in the ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' sound novels. The school doesn't have set uniforms but Shion's uniform is noticeably different from everyone else's, since she sports a uniform that looks more like other schools. It's changed in the remakes and most adaptations though.

* New students start showing up in ''MedakaBox'' bearing the uniforms of a prestigious high school; unfortunately they're all AxeCrazy ChaoticEvil [[PersonOfMassDestruction people of mass destruction]].

* A variation in the ''VisualNovel/HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'' sound novels. The school doesn't have set uniforms but Shion's uniform is noticeably different from everyone else's, since she sports a uniform that looks more like other schools. It's changed in the remakes and most adaptations though.

* Haruhi Fujioka is too poor to buy a new school uniform when she first goes to [[OuranHighSchoolHostClub Ouran High]], even wearing a boy's uniform because her self-consciousness of her gender isn't as much as that of other people's and because the general format (shirt and pants) was easier to mimic with the clothing she had already.

* Utena's "boy uniform" in the ''RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' TV anime, which includes bright red bicycle shorts, is not worn by any of the boys at her school, but is, according to the plot, an approved style (she helpfully points it out at the very beginning - there's nothing at the school dress code that bars her from wearing the male uniform). One wonders [[{{Stripperiffic}} who approved it]] and if it has ever been worn by any boy in the history of the school.

* Subverted? by Aoba from ''CodeBreaker'' because she changes into her new Hesei high school uniform even before she starts attending class.

** Note that [[RanmaOneHalf Ranma]] is ''the only character in the series'' to never, ''ever'', wear a school uniform, unless it's the female kind in order to pull a prank on Ryoga or fool Kuno for some obscure purpose --in which case, it's always treated as a WigDressAccent PaperThinDisguise. Ironically, the first thing that the majority of {{FanFic}}s that deal with a split or locked female Ranma do is shove her into a school uniform, ignoring the entire manga.

* Mendou from ''UruseiYatsura'' wears a different (all-white) school uniform not because he transferred in, but because he's a [[ShelteredAristocrat rich, arrogant bastard]] and he thinks it makes him look important.

* In ''FushigiYuugi'', each Miko is an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent who is TrappedInAnotherWorld, so... yeah.

* A-Ko and C-Ko wore their old uniforms pretty much all through the first ''ProjectAKo'', but finally changed to the school uniforms in the epilogue.
* Kaere/Kaede from ''SayonaraZetsubouSensei'', along with being the only character with a different hair color, is also the only girl in class (excluding Matoi) whose uniform is different than anyone else's -- she sports a plaid miniskirt, blazer and tie in lieu of the SailorFuku every other girl wears.
* In ''MahouSenseiNegima,'' Student #1: Sayo Aisaka, wears a rather different uniform from the other students. When this is initially noticed in the class register, it leads to the assumption that she's a transfer student who never actually got there... but of course, the truth is that she's a ghost, and the uniform she wears was the standard at the time of her death - 60 years earlier.
* Itsuki in ''[[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' [[LampshadeHanging hangs a lampshade]] on this trope: the fact that he appears in North High's uniform from the beginning is a subtle hint at his transfer being deliberately pre-planned so he could better observe Haruhi.

* Himari from ''OmamoriHimari'' keeps her "old" school uniform (or at least a different one) to warn demons who plan to attack Yuuto that she is there to defend him.

** The trailer of ''Rebuild 3.0'' shows her in the same uniform while confronting Mari (do note, though, that [[TrailersAlwaysLie none of that actually happens]] in ''3.0''; everything shown in the trailer was [[AbortedArc unceremoniously scrapped]] when the movie was rewritten during development).

** In the recent spin-of manga ''NeonGenesisEvangelionGakuenDatenroku'', Kaoru is presented as a transfer student who has his own uniform. Much like Rei, he wears it at all times.

* Done by This Trope when his daughter left a religious school to go to public school. The uniforms are expensive, decent quality, and they're adorable on the kindergartners.

* On ''SummerHeightsHigh'', transfer student Ja'mie has come from one of the most expensive private schools in Victoria. She's being shown around the school, but insists on wearing her Hillford School uniform and brags to the principal about how much nicer they are.

** ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'' straight-up inverts it in Season 12 when the Ice Hounds plus Becky arrive in their new Degrassi uniforms for a special start-of-term assembly- in which it's announced that uniforms are abolished EffectiveImmediately.

* Subverted again by Yuuri in ''KyouKaraMaou''. While initially TrappedInAnotherWorld unexpectedly, on a subsequent visit he's wearing normal casual clothes... but his advisors comment his uniform looks so spiffy they tailored up a perfect replica for him to wear as his royal outfit.