neonvincent

I stumbled across a video with the title "All-female color guard of the Japanese Navy."  That lead to this video, which is the earliest one I could find of the unit, which seems to be an auxiliary of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (Japanese Navy) Band.

It turned out to be the solution to a problem I had when describing my issues with the 1980-1985 UCLA  Band flag uniforms, which I didn't like.  I knew the flag uniforms from 1974-1979 had to be changed, but I couldn't come up with a description of what I wanted them to be.  These uniforms are as close as I can get.  Turn the navy blue to a royal blue and the inserts in the pleats to the yellow elsewhere in the uniform, and it would have been perfect.  I don't know about the go-go boots, but I suppose I could have persuaded the band director about those if I had wanted.  The women in the guard, maybe not.

I could have used the flags, too.  Just get rid of the navy anchor.

I also liked this unit's style and execution.  That is definitely what I was striving for when I was teaching.

BTW, the music is from "Thunderbirds Are Go!"  It's appropriately geeky enough.