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We do have a few images from Swedish schools which provide some informtion on schoolwear in various eras. As uniforms were not worn, these school portraits provide a very useful look at children's clothing in Sweden over time. The available images are currently fairly modern. We hope to add earlier images to have a more complete view of Swedish schoolwear.
We note Swedish children playing games in the school yard during 1925. We note a Arne Sohlstrom a boy attending secondary school with his school cap in 1928.
We notice a class portrait at a school in 1931.
The image here shows a typical Swedish school class in 1952 (figure 1). We notice children posing outside their rural school for a school portrait in 1953.
A Dutch reader who attended school in the 1960s tells us, "I was born in 1955, so back in 1963, I was 8 years old (Second class in Swedish schools - we start at 7 in this country!) When I get time, I can scan and send you a photo of my class of excactly that year (May 1963). At my school, we were not required to have uniforms, but it became quite popular among us boys to wear a mixture of the uniform and ordinary clothes! I guess, I was to blame for that partially - me and my best school mate invented a new fashion - blue jeans (of course, as you stated cuffed at the ankle) and the school jacket (grey flannel) To go with this; American basketball shoes! Later on we used our felt pens to put on the names of our favourite pop bands and singers, like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Elvis! My mother DIDNīT appreciate the scribblings on my new shoes, thatīs for sure!"
Related Chronolgy Pages in the Boys' Historical Web Site
[The 1880s]
[The 1930s]
[The 1940s]
[The 1930s]
[The 1940s]
[The 1950s]
[The 1960s]
[The 1970s]
[The 1980s]
