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schools -- chronology : 20th century -- the 1960s
School Uniform: Chronology: 20th Century--The 1960s
Figure 1.--Here we see an unidentified European school class. The boys are dressed differently. We see see casual sweaters, dress white sits, vests,neckties, suits, and mostly short pants. There is no school uniform. The portrait is not dated, but looks like the 1960s to us. The country is also mot indicated, we night guess Belgium. They look to be about 12-years old. The teacher looks to be wearing a smock which suggests Belgium or France to us. Put your cirsor on the image to see the rest of the class.
There continued to be major differences around the world in school wear. American primary school boys commonly wore jeans in the 1960s, but we begin to see short pants appearing once again to a limited extent. Shorts at the time were beconing increasingly worn as caual ear. Jeans were still not allowed in most secondary schools, although this changed as the decade progressed. Schoolwear varies in Europe. Short pants were still commonly worn in primary schools at the beginning of the decase, but we primarily see long pants long pants at the end of the decade. Belgium tended to be conservative with more boys wearing short pants to school than in most other countries. The boys here may be Belgian (figure 1). Knee socks were becoming less common. Among French boys, we rarely see berets and smocks declined sharply in popularity. They were still worn at many Italian schools. English schools differed from other European schools in that uniforms were required at secondary schools and were worn at some private schools. The boys on the previous page are a good example (figure 1). Uniforms were less common at primary schools, except private schools. Increasing numbers of English state oprimary school in the 1960s began introducing uniforms. Short pants were very common in Japan. Some primary schools had uniforms, but virtully all secondary schools required uniforms. The secondary school uniforms ere caset syits for boys and sailor suits or girls.
