Figure 1.--This boy is shoping after school. Notice the star design on the pocket of his smock. His white collar does not have a design and is a Peter Pan Collar.

As far as we can determine, Turkey has only one school uniform garment--the blue school smock. The smocks here is a light blue. HBC has noted smocks in different shades of blue, including a dark navy blue. A HBC reader reports, "When I travelled around Turkey in the early 1970s the schoolboy smocks I recall were black in colour." We notice some style variations. There appaer to be both back and side buttoning smocks. The buttons can differ. Some children have blue bottons while others have white buttons. All of these smocks are made in rather short lengths. As far as we can tell, boys and girls wear the same styles of smock. There are more differences in the collar. It is worn with a wide white collars, often Peter Pan collars. We have seen different collar styles. The boy standing here has more of a Peter Pan collar. Some boys had pointed collars styled more like Etons. Many of the girls have collars with scalloped edging. We note that many boys and girls wear embroidered designs on these collars. We see some are the Islamic cresant and star that are a symbol of Turkey, but there are many other designs as well. Some children had smocks with breast pocket, some of which had designs such as star. This may indicate the school.

Created: November 13, 2002
Last updated: November 13, 2002