The meaning of the word maid:
Hearing the word "maid", the Japanese will have a lot of imagination. However, those are illusory and very different from real maids. But maids do exist in reality, and the interpretation of maids in western European countries is more practical. On the one hand, the word "maid" means "female user, nanny", on the other hand, it means "girl, girl". Now "girl" means "maid", and people who talk about love add "-EN". The expression of "MAYDE" or "MAIDE" in Middle English is based on a period.
On the one hand, the Japanese understanding of "maid" is the user in the family of a person with status, and "domestic servant" or "domestic servant" and "domestic servant" are used as these words. However, these are all general terms for home users, not specifically for female users. Female users only have the word "SERVAN". I'm afraid the user refers to "servant" and "girl", which together means "maid". That is to say, since "servant" is not used, then "maid" is equal to female user, which is more appropriate.
Maids in Japanese subculture
ACG's maid
In Japan, maids are regarded as one of the objects of worship. Usually, young women wear maid aprons, so-called maid clothes.
It has many uses in ACG works or cosplay materials. Even the technique of putting irrelevant female characters around the protagonist of the work will be used. When addressing the employer, it is generally the owner (ごしゅじんさま) or the adult xx (xx, xx is the name of the addressed person.
Maid clothes
Except for the senior maids of housekeepers and ladies-in-waiting, most maids in big houses must wear uniforms. It is said that it is because guests should know how to distinguish themselves from their hosts.
Generally simple and low-level maid clothing, most maids wear this kind of clothing. Clothes are characterized by soft hats, which are for women only, like headscarves. Because of its practicality, even if the indoor hat was abolished later, some maids continued to use it. Classical one-piece skirt was a popular dress for women at that time. The triangular thin cloth hanging down from the skirt is called the drop belt; The sleeve edge of the sleeve will be folded flush; Long aprons were originally worn to avoid soiling clothes, usually used by housewives or craftsmen, and later used by maids in the upper class, becoming a major feature of maid clothing.
The common maid clothes in animation belong to the maid clothes in the living room, which are more gorgeous. Because the maid in the living room is mainly responsible for receiving guests, she pays more attention to appearance than practicality. The hat was more decorative and later became a ribbon; Wear a dark one-piece skirt except black, and there will be lace on the edge of a more gorgeous apron; The sleeves are folded and matched with white-collar workers, and gloves are worn to protect their hands; White aprons are generally shorter than ordinary maids, and skirts without breast pockets are generally embroidered.
Wikipe tan's maid dress is similar to that in the living room, but the production and decoration are different. Perhaps because of the double ponytail, the ribbon on the head disappeared, and the long skirt was replaced by a modern one-piece skirt. The sleeves folded up like a white apron have the characteristics of a standard maid.
Maid cafe
In recent years, restaurants catering for maids have mushroomed. Most of the waitresses' clothes are based on ACG maids, and the maid cafe takes people who are interested in maid clothes and ACG as customers. Starting from Akihabara, there are imitations in good places of ACG now.