This troper recalls a guy from his primary school days who would wear a jumper with longer than usual sleeves, chew holes in them and wear them like a pair of fingerless gloves.

My high school is kind of like this; we have an official uniform, but it's only mandatory on special occasions. Instead, here's our dress code (this is only the mandatory stuff, it is by no means the ''only'' clothing we are allowed to wear): must wear any combination of grey/black/brown/darkish greenshirt/jacket/pants anyway, I don't think accessories like scarves are subject to that rule), no distinct logos, nothing ridiculously skimpy or garish (say, open shoesscience subjects, sporting activities and such, anyway; it's not prohibited otherwise, but I certainly wouldn't be caught wearing those, overexposing clothing, etc.) Thankfully, the students here are blessed with common sense, so as long as we exercise that and follow the general structure of the code, anything goes. Wearing a blank shirt, pants and sneakers is generally good enough here.

This Troper's school allowed three items of jewellery, which dropped to one during the last year cause we got a really strict teacher. She always wore 5 pieces of jewellery and wore bright coloured badges on her uniform. Teachers never really noticed what I wore, cause I was so quiet in class, but the noisier kids always got found out, even if they had less jewellery on than i did, or a shorter skirt, or had their top button undone.

This troper sees this a lot at her school. The general winter uniform rules are wear a red tie, blue and red checked skirt, shirt, and either jumper, vest or blazer appropriate for year level. Nothing is ever mentioned about style and length of skirt, style or pattern of tie, or colour of shirt. Unfortunately, on a more serious note, this trope resulted in senior hoodies being banned untill the end of the year at her school.

This Troper is in the military and tends to do subtle things to his uniform to be different such as wearing jump boots, rolling up his sleeves often, and using a tac vest and thigh holster instead of the standard issue duty belt.

This Troper's school had a uniform and rules against "large obvious jewelry", but nothing about gloves or hats. I took much delight in wearing cool hats, and occasionally mesh fingerless gloves. There was a minimum length for the skirt, but no maximum, so one student wore her skirt too ''long'', and wearing ball caps was a trend.

@/DesertDragon: I wear a uniform to work and formerly school (in Job Corps), and I like to pull off this trope with jewelry by wearing a choker necklace, a thick leather watch on one wrist, and two bracelets on the other. In taekwondo practice I wear the necklace (it doesn't dangle, so it's not in much danger of being snagged), but that's about it.

A friend of mine took this to extremes when we were still in school. While I went for a more conservative form of uniform customization(wearing so many badges on my tie the pattern was no longer visible, 21 by the end of 6th year.), he arrived on the first day of 5th year wearing a black shirt, a tie with the embroidered pattern picked out, beaten up converse, a variety of bracelets and chokers all with studs or spikes, a bracelet with two inch spikes being the pointiest and ripped black jeans held together with so many safety pins they were practically chain-mail. he battled teachers for a year over this outfit, only relenting over the shirt colour and spikes long enough to be used as weapons. he was almost disqualified from an exam, because the invigilators thought he was hiding crib notes under the adornments covering his arms. Next year he modified his uniform to the same degree but in the opposite direction. On the first day of 6th year he arrived wearing a perfectly pressed suit, Italian leather ankle boots and his school tie. he then wore this for the rest of the year to mess with people's heads.

At my old school, they were pretty lenient on uniforms. Girls: shirt, ribbon/tie, blazer, skirt (with no specified length), and knee socks. Me? I showed up to school on the first day wearing {{Zettai Ryouki}}, striped socks, and knee-high Converse.

This troper has been trying to do this. He wears a female uniform at a conservative school, thus he can't wear pants like he always does in formal events. Thankfully he's switching schools soon, and the next school allows girls to wear pants.

This troper's local middle school has a typical American uniform policy but he's never seen anyone come out of that school, or go to that school, wearing one.

This Troper is in the US Air Force, which is currently (early 2011) transitioning from woodland-pattern Battle Dress Uniforms to the new "Digital Tigerstripe" Airman Battle Uniforms. While he ''has'' aquired a full set of the uniforms, he tends to wear the older uniform, complete with polished black boots, whenever possible. And will continue to do so, until the uniforms are officially removed from service (coming soon, this fall!). The effect is that he is the ''only'' guy in his squadron who wears the old uniform.