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Only limited information is available at this time on clothes worn by Spanish boys. We have very limited written information about Spain. We have noted a few images which provide us some information. Smocks were worn by Spanish boys. Many elementary schools do seem to have required them, but I do not know if there was a national rule. There appears to have been some regional differences, with destinctive styles in Catalonia. We have little information on Spanish tunics at this time. There is no indication that Spain has diverged from the general European pattern concerning tunics. We do have one 1916 image. I believe sailor suits were very popular in the late 19th as in most of Europe, ut have no specific image at this time. Sailor suits were being worn by boys for first communion even in the 1990s. Boys commonly wore blouses in the late 18th century. I have limited information on blouse styles. I do not know how popular Fauntleroy blouses were. One image shows a boy wearing a destinctive stripped blouse with aclarge collar and back flap. Boys in the late 19th century might wear large floppy bows with blouses. Keepants were the primary dress of Spanish boys in the late 19th century. They continued to be worn until the 1920s. Knickers band short pants became increasingly common in the 1910s. Spanish boys by the 1920s were wearing short pants, knickers, and long pants. Short pants were very commn in the 1920s and 30s, but I am unsure as to the relative popularity of these styles. By the 1930s boys commonly wore short pants and many boys wore smocks to school. After the 1960s short pants became much less common as most boys wanted to wear jeans. Boys wore long dark stockings with kneepants. Socks began to be worn in the 1910s as boys began wearing knickers and short pasnts. White three-quarter or kneesocks might be worn with short pants for formal occasion. Spanish school children were commonly wearing smocks by the 1930s, although I am not sure when this paractice first began. Short pants were common until the 1970s.
Smocks were worn by Spanish boys. Many elementary schools do seem to have required them, but I do not know if there was a national rule. There appears to
have been some regional differences, with destinctive styles in Catalonia. One Spanish contributor reports that boys in a small town near Barcelona wear a front
buttoning smock with a brown belt. Normally the whole of Cataluna wears the very same type at school, white with blue stipes and blue collar, pocket and cuffs. I
still, however, have little information on Spain. At this time we do not have information on Spanish smocks in general, but only school smocks.
We have little information on Spanish tunics at this time. There is no indication that Spain has diverged from the general European patter concerning tunics. We do have one 1916 image.
I believe sailor suits were very popular in the late 19th as in most of Europe, ut have no specific image at this time. Sailor suits were being worn by boys for first communion even in the 1990s.
Boys commonly wore blouses in the late 18th century. I have limited information on blouse styles. I do not know how popular Fauntleroy blouses were. One image shows a boy wearing a destinctive stripped blouse with aclarge collar and back flap.
Boys in the late 19th century might wear large floppy bows with blouses.
Keepants were the primary dress of Spanish boys in the late 19th century. They continued to be worn until the 1920s. Knickers band short pants became increasingly common in the 1910s. Spanish boys by the 1920s were wearing short pants, knickers, and long pants. Short pants were very commn in the 1920s and 30s, but I am unsure as to the relative popularity of these styles. By the 1930s boys commonly wore short pants and many boys wore smocks to school. After the 1960s short pants became much less common as most boys wanted to wear jeans.
Boys wore long dark stockings with kneepants. Socks began to be worn in the 1910s as boys began wearing knickers and short pasnts. White three-quarter or kneesocks might be worn with short pants for formal occasion. I am unsure wehat kind of socks were worn with knickers. Boys were still wearing dark long stockings with knicketrs for formal occasions in the 1920s.
Spanish school children were commonly wearing smocks by the 1930s, although I am not sure when this paractice first began. Short pants were common until the 1970s. Young kindergarten age children still commonly wear smocks in Spain. It is no longer common, however, for older boys to wear them--but some still do. A Spanish contributor to HBC in 1999 reported school boys about about 7 or 8 years old still wearing the smocks over their street clothes.
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