History Main / CatHolicSchoolgirlsRule

* ''Flim/TheMonsterSquad'': Dracula kidnaps a trio of nubile teenage uniformed schoolgirls and transforms them into his signature vampire "brides".

%%* Music/{{Shakira}} and her backup dancers in the video to "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2xNoJUtEFI Pure Intuition]]". (zero-context example)
* The video for Music/SleighBells' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fheYx_ZPU18 Infinity Guitars]]".
* Every female human being under the age of 22 is dressed in a Roman Catholic schoolgirl uniform at the beginning of the video for Music/BritneySpears' "Baby, One More Time...". Not so coincidentally, every female human being of any age had an automatic Halloween costume that year. Thanks, Britney! The video has been widely parodied and pastiched, most notably by model Charlotte McKinney and her backing singers in the series 'Lip Sync Battle' in a performance that made the original look positively tame.
%%* Music/FrankZappa's "Catholic Girls". (zero-context example)

* ''Flim/TheMonsterSquad'': Dracula kidnaps a trio of nubile teenage uniformed schoolgirls and transforms them into his signature vampire "brides".

%%* Music/{{Shakira}} and her backup dancers in the video to "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2xNoJUtEFI Pure Intuition]]". (zero-context example)
* The video for Music/SleighBells' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fheYx_ZPU18 Infinity Guitars]]".
* Every female human being under the age of 22 is dressed in a Roman Catholic schoolgirl uniform at the beginning of the video for Music/BritneySpears' "Baby, One More Time...". Not so coincidentally, every female human being of any age had an automatic Halloween costume that year. Thanks, Britney! The video has been widely parodied and pastiched, most notably by model Charlotte McKinney and her backing singers in the series 'Lip Sync Battle' in a performance that made the original look positively tame.
%%* Music/FrankZappa's "Catholic Girls". (zero-context example)

* ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}'' actually got a [[DudeNotFunny lot of angry mail]] from [[MoralGuardians some people]] for [[http://www.famousfix.com/topic/playboy-magazine-united-states-march-1996/magazines this cover in 1996]] that seemed to show a model (Amara Dunae)in such an outfit. (They later claimed it wasn't a Catholic school uniform or even an imitation of one and had been custom-tailored.) This however did not stop them later putting Playmates Spencer Scott, Lauren Anderson and Breann McGregor in the same outfit and regularly using it for the cover models of their "College Girls" newsstand specials.

There's also the notion (which is sometimes TruthInTelevision but usually just wishful thinking, given the fetish-fantasy nature of the trope) that a seemingly chaste schoolgirl may only be going through the ''motions'' of chastity and religiosity for the benefit of parents, teachers, and clergy, similarly to a SeeminglyWholesomeFiftiesGirl, and is just itching for a chance to [[NaughtyByNight reveal her less-than-holy side the moment no one's looking]], with all that repression leading to a simmering cauldron of [[HormoneAddledTeenager typical teenage hormones]] just looking for a chance to boil over in a plethora of exciting ways in an attempt to rebel.

* On ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'', Patty the Daytime Hooker went to Catholic school back in TheEighties, and she transformed her uniform into the "sexy" version. 20 years later, she tries to invoke the trope again, but [[FetishRetardant it doesn't]] ''really'' work due to the toll that time (and working in TheOldestProfession) has taken on her body.

This trope is slowly becoming [[DiscreditedTrope discredited]], since many real-life Catholic schools have changed their uniforms to [[BoringButPractical unisex khakis and polo shirts]], especially as more schools [[GenreSavvy come to realize]] that what looks pure and innocent on a nine-year-old can take on a rather different context (intentionally or otherwise) when worn by a 16-year-old after the "summer growth spurt."

* ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows'' Megan Fox (as ace reporter April O'Neil) disguises herself as a nympho schoolgirl in order to blend in with a group of women on a bachelorette party so that she can gather intelligence on the villains.

* GregTheBunny has an episode in which a girl uses the Catholic Schoolgirl meme to lure Seth Green into a compromising position and blackmail him.

* ''Scary Movie'' series.
** ''Film/ScaryMovie'': Creator/ShannonElizabeth's character gets this, gunning for RuleOfFunny and RuleOfSexy.
** ''Film/ScaryMovie3'': Has Pamela Anderson and Creator/JennyMcCarthy in schoolgirl outfits.

* In Series/TropicalHeat PI Nick takes a case involving a bevvy of beautiful teenage uniformed schoolgirls who almost inevitably turn out to be involved in drugs, prostitution and murder. He goes undercover as an English tutor teaching them 'Romeo and Juliet', his friend Spider pointing out it is the story of a doomed forbidden romance between an adolescent girl and an older man who both end up dead in the end.

In Britain, where the trope isn't associated with Roman Catholicism to quite the same extent (due to uniforms being much more common in both private and state primary and secondary schools), this look is identified with the "''[[Film/StTrinians St. Trinian's]]'' Girl", after a series of BoardingSchool comics and subsequent live-action film adaptations of that name. The trope is also more broadly regarded as being [[{{Squick}} squicky]] in the UK since the style of uniform is more strongly associated with the real children who wear it there. Most real-life schools with this kind of uniform opt for an office-wear dress code rather than actual uniforms for sixth form (final two years, so 16-18-year-old) students, making this style of uniform a more specifically child-like look.
This trope has an Eastern equivalent in {{Joshikousei}}, a fetishizing of Japanese schoolgirls wearing [[SailorFuku another distinctive uniform.]]

* Defied in ''Series/{{Degrassi}}''. First Clare wore something approaching your standard schoolgirl uniform. But it was played as childish, not sexy. Fiona's time in a New York prep school included her attempt to redesign them to be this, but we never got to the endpoint of that. When Degrassi itself experimented with using school uniforms they were designed to be as unflattering as possible. This TruthInTelevision; as is the fact that the girls seem to have wasted no time figuring out how to shorten the skirts without permanently doing so.

* ''Webcomic/EnnuiGo'': During a theme park field trip, newly-AmicableExes Vanitas and Andromeda partner up for the sole purpose of flirting with the members of a Catholic girl's school that's also at the theme park. In the process, the latter finds out why there's a Catholic school in Key Manati; apparently, NaughtyNuns have to come from ''somewhere''.

And of course, for some there's good old [[NostalgiaFilter nostalgia]], as plenty of Catholic school alumni can fondly remember (and perhaps embellish) their own hormonal teenage years. Alternately, those who actually attended a Catholic school for a decent stretch of time may be much ''less'' prone to this trope: seeing a uniform (especially one involving skirts and dress shirts) worn by both attractive and unattractive girls, possibly even one's own family members, for years on end can make one lose interest in the uniform rather quickly.

In Britain, where the trope isn't associated with Roman Catholicism to quite the same extent (due to uniforms being much more common in both private and state primary and secondary schools), this look is identified with the "''[[Film/StTrinians St. Trinian's]]'' Girl", after a series of BoardingSchool comics and subsequent live-action film adaptations of that name. The trope is also more broadly regarded as being [[{{Squick}} squicky]] in the UK, since the style of uniform is more strongly associated with the real children who wear it there. Most real-life schools with this kind of uniform opt for an office-wear dress code rather than actual uniforms for sixth form (final two years, so 16-18 year old) students, making this style of uniform a more specifically child-like look.

This trope's SpearCounterpart is arguably the Mormon Missionary: young men often from sheltered backgrounds living in close quarters with other young men doing God-knows-what behind closed doors (most likely religious study but don't tell that to a fetishist). Though in this case, the outfit itself usually isn't sexualized, but the idea of a repressed young person with simmering sexuality below a prim and proper exterior is all too familiar.

* In the ''Franchise/{{Discworld}}'' of Creator/AAPessimal, the canonical setting of the Convent School of the Spiteful Sisterhood of Seven-Handed-Sek (SHS) is expanded upon and is revealed to have the Discworld's equivalent of Catholic Schoolgirls. Compared to the Assassins' School,[[note]]Assassin schoolgirls also have to wear gymslips, although these are the all-covering ankle length version. Older girl pupils at the AGS find their own ways of ''subtly modifying'' the uniform to point out that somewhere underneath all this, there is a female body.[[/note]] SHS is more mainstream and typical of the sort of general education the Disc gives to its daughters. Who are tended by kindly and caring nuns with a deep commitment to educating their charges and turning out well-adjusted young ladies. It's not ''their'' fault they get girls like [[TheLadette Shauna]] [[FightingIrish O'Hennigan]] and [[FieryRedhead Rebecka]] [[AmoralAfrikaner Smith-Rhodes-Stibbons]].

* ''Film/FiveGirls'' : This Creator/{{Syfy}} [[Film/SyfyChannelOriginalMovie original movie]] revolves around "sinners" who are sent to a Catholic reform school and are forced to wear naughty schoolgirl outfits. The events of the movie turn two of them into lesbians for [[LesYay some]] [[GirlOnGirlIsHot reason]]. Bizarrely, this may even be justified, since everyone involved is either part of a conspiracy with a demon or being manipulated by someone who is, and the girls are being groomed for sacrifice.

* ''Film/CabinFever 2'' plays this trope for maximum {{squick}} in a scene featuring a stripper in a midriff-baring, miniskirt-wearing Catholic schoolgirl costume and bearing a burst cold sore (an early sign of the flesh-eating disease featured in the film, for those of you playing at home). Her performance goes overall fine, until she takes off her top and reveals that [[FanDisservice her breasts are ''covered'' in pustules]]. ([[RuleThirtyFour One of her spectators indicates that he would still tap that.]])

* ''Film/DeadtimeStories'': "Little Red Running Hood" opens with Rachel taking off her school uniform and running her hands all over body as she fantasizes about her boyfriend.

* Cha-Cha from ''Film/{{Grease}}'' is a Catholic school girl and has the sluttiest reputation of all the female characters in the film.

* ''Film/JennifersBody'': While she isn't actually a Catholic schoolgirl, Jennifer is shown on the poster wearing this kind of outfit, which shows off her long legs. She doesn't wear this in the film however.

* In ''Film/LizzieBordensRevenge'', Vanessa spends the movie a very short plaid skirt, and white blouse knotted underneath her breasts, white knee socks, and black high heels.

* ''Film/PrettyPersuasion'': Discussed between two male teachers who actually work at a catholic girls school. Also, while the teacher who is later accused of statutory rape by the FilleFatale protagonist is in fact completely innocent of that crime, he does ask his adult girlfriend to dress up as a student.

* ''Film/TheWorldsEnd'': Friday nights at The Mermaid are called "School Night". All the girls dress like this; the boys dress like Catholic schoolboys, too. Even Basil gets in on the act, dressed as a professor in cap-and-gown. [[spoiler: Apparently this was all the [[AlienInvasion Network]] needed to do to get DNA from Peter, Andrew and Gary.]]

* On ''Series/AsTimeGoesBy'', Sandy goes to a policeman's ball where the women dress as ''Film/StTrinians'' girls and the men as policemen. Jean and Lionel find this squicky until they see that that Sandy has decided to dress as a fourth former, and the policemen are dressing as Keystone Kops.

** Similarly, in its spin-off series ''Series/{{Angel}}'', Lilah dresses as a schoolgirl to jointly seduce Wesley and mock him for being in love with the bookish geek girl, Fred. She succeeds in seducing Wesley, but when he tells her to leave the glasses on, the expression her face suggests he may as well have said Fred's name during the height of passion, it stung that much.

* Defied in ''Series/{{Degrassi}}''. First Clare wore something approaching your standard schoolgirl uniform. But it was played as childish, not sexy. Fiona's time in a New York prep school included her attempt to redesign them to be this, but we never got to the endpoint on that. When Degrassi itself experimented with using school uniforms they were designed to be as unflattering as possible. This TruthInTelevision; as is the fact that the girls seem to have wasted no time figuring out how to shorten the skirts without permanently doing so.

* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': Marshall and Lily's stripper daughter wears a variation of this when performing and even when made pregnant by an elderly Barney. Robin also wears one in the beginning of her DVD, making the gang assume she has done porn but it is actually the introduction to her "Let's go to the mall" teen pop video.
* ''Series/InspectorMorse''. In "Last Seen Wearing", Morse and Lewis are in a car watching the teenager girls at an expensive private school play hockey. Morse mentions how grateful he is to whoever it was that invented the sports skirt and made it a compulsory uniform.

* However Alan's 20 something girlfriend Kandi does indulge in this fetish for him, something which gains Charlie's approval ("Good choice"). He dresses as a priest for her.

* ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}'' actually got a [[DudeNotFunny lot of angry mail]] from [[MoralGuardians some people]] for [[http://www.famousfix.com/topic/playboy-magazine-united-states-march-1996/magazines this cover in 1996]] that seemed to show a model (Amara Dunae)in such an outfit. (They later claimed it wasn't a Catholic school uniform or even an imitation of one and had been custom-tailored.)This however did not stop them later putting Playmates Spencer Scott, Lauren Anderson and Breann McGregor in the same outfit and regularly using it for the cover models of their "College Girls" newstand specials.

* Every female human being under the age of 22 is dressed in a Roman Catholic schoolgirl uniform at the beginning of the video for Music/BritneySpears' "Baby, One More Time...". Not so coincidentally, every female human being of any age had an automatic Halloween costume that year. Thanks, Britney! The video has been widely parodied and pastiched, most notably by model Charlotte McKinney and her backing singers in the series 'Lip Sync Battle' in a performance which made the original look positively tame.

* ''VideoGame/{{IMGCM}}'': St. Charles academy has schoolgirl uniforms that are already sexy, especially with a short skirt, and they don't seem to have strict rules about dress codes. Lilly has her CustomUniformOfSexy, which is tight and has exposed cleavage, especially when she's being a GyaruGirl. Marianne, one of the St. Charles schoolgirls and Lilly's best friend, is revealed to secretly draw {{NSFW}} doujins as well as general mangas.

* Realistically [[AvertedTrope averted]] with Laura Denker in ''Literature/AreYouThereGodItsMeMargaret''. She's the tallest and most developed girl in the sixth grade, and all the boys stare at her. But she attends public school, she is not as fast or slutty as the other girls assume, and her Catholicism is only briefly seen when she goes to confession after school--and just before it, Laura [[WhatTheHellHero calls Margaret out]] directly on how she ''knows'' how everyone talks about her and that [[DidYouThinkICantFeel she's tired of it]].

* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': Marshall and Lily's stripper daughter wears a variation of this when performing and even when made pregnant by an elderly Barney.

** Darla, a vampire who's at least four hundred years old, dresses like a Catholic schoolgirl because she is taunting Angel for being in love with teenage Buffy, despite the fact that Sunnydale High doesn't require uniforms. Darla's also wearing that outfit to get boys. As in 'to get dinner'. Check out the opening sequence of the pilot episode, when she's wearing that same outfit to lure a leather-jacket-clad tough guy into a place where she can bite him. It's a great take on the usual DeathBySex scene in slasher films. If you don't know Darla's a vamp, it's got a huge [=HSQ=].

Regardless of the (admittedly [[{{Squick}} squicky]]) reasoning behind it, the trope has led to the fetishization of the standard "schoolgirl uniform", Catholic or otherwise, frequently [[CustomUniformOfSexy modified to Stripperiffic specifications]]. This outfit usually consists of a button-up shirt, sometimes worn with a tie (in more exploitative media, the shirt is worn [[VaporWear without a bra]], and knotted so high up that the girl in question is simultaneously [[BareYourMidriff baring her midriff]] completely and showing off a ''lot'' of [[ImpossiblyLowNeckline cleavage]]); usually a blazer or jacket of some kind, and frequently a couple of sizes too small; a short, pleated skirt that may or may not be in some kind of plaid; [[ZettaiRyouiki knee-high socks or stockings]]; polished black loafers or Mary Janes; and often [[GirlishPigtails pigtails]]. Oh, and you can expect {{panty shot}}s to be a frequent occurrence... unless, of course, she's not wearing any. Needless to say, any girl who actually shows up to class like this would be thrown in detention faster than you can say "Jailbait." The uniform will sometimes be depicted as being worn [[SchoolUniformsAreTheNewBlack even outside of school]].

* ''Series/{{House}}'': In "House's Head," he has a hallucination in a sensory deprivation tank of Cuddy in a [[ZettaiRyouiki schoolgirl]] [[BareYourMidriff outfit]]. [[YouCanLeaveYourHatOn She isn't in it]] for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM_dzGJoGBg long though]].