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