Figure 1.--Here we see a Soviet schoolboy in 1962. Notice the military-dstyle cap. Notice he does not wear a red Young Pioneer scarfe. We believe that is because he is to young to join the Pioneers.
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Figure 1.--Here we see a Soviet schoolboy in 1962. Notice the military-dstyle cap. Notice he does not wear a red Young Pioneer scarfe. We believe that is because he is to young to join the Pioneers. |
The school uniforms worn by Russian boys have changed over time, but until the disolution of the Soviet Union in 1992, nostly consisted of military-styled garments. This included both the Tzarist and Soviet periods. Boys wore both peaked military caps and campaign caps. I'm not sure if they had a dress cap or wore the same cap year round. I'm less sure about the caps or hats worn by the girls. A jacket or military blouse buttoned to the collar. Some boys wore white shirts. One style was towear the collar outside the jacket. Russian boys normally wear long pants to school.
Boys wore both peaked military caps and campaign caps. I'm not sure if they had a dress cap or wore the same cap year round. We see them in the 1950s abd 60s, but not commonly by the 1970s. I'm less sure about the caps or hats worn by the girls.
A jacket or military blouse buttoned to the collar.
Some boys wore white shirts. One style was towear the collar outside the jacket.
We have noted Soviet boys and girls in the 1950s-60s wearing neckerchiefs with their uniforms. The color of these neckerchiefs is not readily apparent in the black and white paragraphs. Boys also wore neckerchiefs with their Young Pioneer uniforms. The color varied as to their status in the Young Pioneers. We believe that these colored Pioneer neckerchiefs were worn to school. We note that some photographs of the younger children show them without these scarves. In some communist countries the younger children wore blue scarves and the older children red scarves. At least in some years, younger Soviet children did not wear scarves at all.
Russian boys normally wear long pants to school. We have noted images from elementary school with the boys wearing short pants, sometimes with long stockings.
We note many photographs of Soviet schoolgirls wearing dark dresses and pinafores. We are not sure when this practice began. We note images from the 1930s, but they may hasve been just a few individuals or show schools. These dark dresses and fancy pinafores appear very common from the 1950s through the 1980s. We have noted both dark brown and blue dresses. I'm not sure if any other dresses were involved. The pinafores were always fancy white ones. We note girls of all ages wearing them, both in primary and secondary school. I'm not sure but I think the firls may have had a best fancy pinafore that they wore for special occassions. Here I am not yet positive.
We do not notice many Russian school children wearing smocks, either during the Tsarist or Soviet period. We do note one image of what looks like Soviet kindergarden children wearing smocks. We are not sure how common this was. Nor do we know if it was a local or regional convention. We also do not know f smocks were used only for kindergrden children.
Russian children have worn different types of hosiery to school. We note Russian school children wearing ankle socks, three-quarter socks kneesocks, long stockings, and tights. Here it is not always easy to tell, especially about boys, because our primary source of information is the photographic record and we canot tell if the boys are wearing long pants. Thus we know more about younger than older boys. The popularity of these different types as well as gender an color conventions have varied over time. Long stockings were common before World War I. After the War we see many children wearing kneesocks, but long stockings were very common during the winter. White was a popular color for girls, but younger boys also wore white hosiery Ankle socks became common after Wirld war II. Long stockings continurd to be worn during the winter through the 1960s. Children began wearing tights in the the 1970s. White tights were especially popular for girls. Tights came in brighter coloes than were common with long sockings.
We notice some children with books bags and satchels we are not sure how common these were. They do not seem to have been as common as they were in European countries like France and Germany. We do not yet have details over the different styles children used and how they changed over time.
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