Basic Trope: A character wears their school uniform even when other clothing options are available or would make more sense.
- Straight: Alice, a student at Tropeford Academy, wears her uniform when hanging out with her friends (on a non-school day).
- Exaggerated: Alice wears her school uniform to a fancy ball.
- Downplayed: Alice occasionally wears her uniform outside of school.
- Justified:
- Tropeford Academy has rules requiring students to wear their uniforms even in certain situations outside of school.
- Alice is too poor to afford other clothes.
- Alice's other clothes are in the wash.
- Alice just likes the uniform, or just has a lot of school spirit.
- Alice is a Magical Girl or Superhero whose powers only work when she's wearing her school uniform.
- Alice is just too lazy to wear other clothes.
- Alice hasn't been home yet to change.
- Inverted:
- Alice never wears her uniform, even in school.
- Alice's school doesn't have uniforms, but she makes a point of always changing clothes between school and hanging out afterwards just because.
- Subverted: Alice seems to wear a school uniform outside of school in one scene, but they turn out to be casual clothes.
- Double Subverted: Alice is seen in something that looks like a school uniform, but it's just her casual clothes. Her casual clothes actually are school uniforms, because she really likes the fashion.
- Parodied: Alice literally never wears anything else: she wears her uniform to formal occasions, she bathes in it, and she even sleeps in it.
- Zig Zagged: Alice alternates between wearing her uniform in school, wearing non-regulation clothes in school, wearing her uniform outside of school, wearing casual clothes outside of school, and just forgoing clothes entirely.
- Averted: Alice wears her uniform in scenes where it would be expected, and casual (or otherwise appropriate clothes besides her uniform) at other times.
- Enforced: "We can't afford a lot of outfits, so let's just have Alice wear her school uniform for everything."
- Lampshaded: When asked why she's wearing her school uniform while camping, Alice says, "How else would people know I go to school?"
- Invoked: "I wonder what should I wear... Should I just go with my school uniform?"
- Exploited: Veronica, who's trying to infiltrate in Tropeford Academy, dons one of their characteristic uniforms in order to get along the students that roam around with them way past school hours. The logic behind such action being that only a true Tropeford's student would wear her uniform outside of the institution, so it is an almost perfect disguise.
- Defied: Alice mother strictly forbids Alice from using her uniform past school hours, as it might get unnecessarily dirty, making laundry a more annoying chore in the long run.
- Discussed: "Sheesh, Alice, don't you you have any other clothes?"
- Conversed: "I see the animators went with Limited Wardrobe, so Alice wears her school uniform everywhere."
Look, Alice, why don't we get you some nice casual clothes on the way back to School Uniforms are the New Black?
