Figure 1.-- This looks to be a street scene from an unidentified English city. We would guess it came from the late-1920s, but the early-20s is possible. Here the cars are helpful. It shows a man with a football scarf round his neck. There is a young woman and a teenage boy in a school uniform, prsumably the man's daughter and son. This would appear to be a Saturday afternoon family outing. Presumably the snapshot was taken by a street photographer.

School uniforms were not just worn at school in the 1920s as is the case today. School uniforms or school garments were cammonly wirn wheb dressing up such as going to church. Many boys did not have suits and used heir school uniform or school clothes when dressing up. Large wardrobes were not common for boys at the time unless they came from a well-to-do family. And this was not just for formal outings like church. Boys and girls might wear their school uniforms for family outings to parks and attractioms or for going down town. It should be remmenbered that people in the 1920s still dressed up much more commonly than is the case today. Conventions were more informal than in the early-20th century, but still much more formal than the case of modern times. Thus you see boys wearing their school uniforms with ties on picnics, to the beach. or other such outings.

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