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The standardised clothing design was introduced so that  students can identify each other and prevents schools from profiteering by charging their students for institution- specific uniforms. The V&A example was bought in the Luohu district of Shenzhen where many of the best high  schools are located. \r\n\r\nShenzhen, China’s first special Economic Zone is located at the tip of the Pearl River Delta. The city grew from a  modest fishing town into a vast, sprawling metropolis of more than fifteen million in just thirty-five years, through  manufacturing, trade and relentless commercial energy. Today Shenzhen is the world’s third busiest container  port, with a population with an average age of the less than thirty and almost entirely composed of recent  migrants. \r\n\r\nThe invitation to participate in the Bi-City Biennale enabled the museum to engage with this fast-changing city  and to road test the recently introduced Rapid Response Collecting strand. The museum asked more than sixty  people in Shenzhen to propose a design object that told a story about their city and the result was an exhibition  of twenty-three things and twenty-three stories about the place. By exhibiting everyday objects, the show placed  centre stage the realities of urban life, of industry and of commercial and social change. \r\n\r\nThe Shenzhen uniform was suggested by Feby Ting a student from the city. Feby Ting noted that there is considerable pride among Shenzhen students in this comfortable, practical piece of clothing. Many continue to  wear it after graduation and this allows then to recognise other former Shenzhen students when living in cities  elsewhere in China and abroad. The very simple design has become an object of communal experience and  belonging for a generation educated in a city often criticised, even by its own inhabitants, for having no identity.\r\n\r\nIn recent years, the Shenzhen school uniform has entered popular cultural consciousness: manga stories have  featured it and themed events, like the Shenzhen School Uniform Day, celebrate its significance.\r\n\r\n\r\n","physicalDescription":"Shenzhen high school uniform, the trousers are dark blue with a white strip done the outside of each leg. 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Feby Ting, a student from Shenzhen who chose these trousers, says that there is considerable pride among Shenzhen students in this comfortable, practical piece of clothing, to the extent that many continue to wear them after graduation. This allows them to recognise other former Shenzhen students when living in other cities.\r\nFeby has his own experience of exactly this. 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