World War II Air Campaign: School Reenactments of British Evacuation--Costumes


Figure 1.-- These British children did a class project on the World War II evacuations. We note this is a popular class project in Britain. This looks to be a state primary school.

These recreations are done by all kinds of primary schools throughout Britain. Here we see a private preparatory school putting on a World war II evacuation Figure 1). We notice similar recreations at state primary schools. These recreations involve a range of activities. The costuming is generally left up to the children and their mothers. Here there is a great range as to how seriously the children perdue the project. Of course they usually do not have access to real period dress. Thus they have to mke do with garments that arecavailable to them. We do not know to what extent the teachers discuss with the children what kind of clothes school children wore during World war II. One ironical development is that private school children today wear uniforms that are more similar to what the evacuees that the clothes worn by state school children. Yet most of the evacuees were children attending state






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