Figure 1.--This photograph shows the EON Skapaneis uniform. The boys look to be about 7-8 years old. Note the salute which looks like the German NAZI and Italian Fascist salute.

Levels

There were three different uniforms for the boys, depending on the diffent organizationl level. A lot of children (boys and girls) remember that they were very jealous of EON members walking or marching around with their clean and impressive uniforms at the time when they had no shoes to wear. A lot of boys joined EON because of their impressive uniforms.

Fallagites

The "Fallagites" wore a formal uniform with blue long baggy trousers with straps around the ankles, blue shirt, white tie, white belt and a type of forage-cap with the EON badge.

Skapaneis

The "Skapaneis" had a uniform better suited suited for activities, especially during the summer. The uniform was blue short trousers and knee socks instead of longs. In this uniform the socks and tie were sometimes not used.

Younger group

There is also seem to existed a uniform for little boys and girls ages 4-7. We are not sure what this group was called. This uniform had a blue smock and white ankle socks instead of the trousers.

Membership

Despite the Government support for EON, there were costs associated with joining. EON did not give the uniforms free to the children. This meant that not all boys could afford to join EON. Boys who couldn't afford uiforms could ask their mothers to sew them. (In Germany, companies made a lot of money selling Hitler Youth uniforms and equipment which parents had to buy, especially when membership was made compulsory. Children from poor families, however, could receive poor uniforms if their parents could not afford to buy them.) Thus EON, while more broadly based than Scouting, was not the same kind of mass youth movement as was the case in Germany and Italy.