Figure 1.-- Here is a German primary class with some interesting fashion details. I think this primary class (about 3rd grade meaning 8 years old) was probably photographed about 1930. By this we mean the late-1920s or early-30s. We suspect the early-30s is most likely because we only see one boy wearing high-top shoes. The location is not identified. It is a mixed, class but boys seem to predominate. Notice the interesting striped jackets many of the boys are wearing. They certainly look like British school blazers. We have seen these striped jackets before, but never so many at a single school. It seems unlikely that this would ocurred without the school encouraging it. All the boys wear short trousers, most of them with knee socks, although one or two seem to be wearing ankle socks, and one boy wears black long stockings. He is also wearing what looks like a striped jacket on top of the Lederhosen halter. On closer examination, his jacket is not striped, but a kind of plaid. Click on the image for a more detailed look. We see the teacher with a Hitler-like mustache at the right in one of the rear rows. (We wonder if that was a political statement.) One boy seems to be wearing a sailor blouse.

The blazer is a garment primarily associated with Britain and British Empire schoolwear. We do notice a few German boys wearing blazers. It was not a major school style, but we do do notice a few German boys wearing blazers. And it some cases they were not just standard blue blazers that American boys commonly wore, although not necesarily as a school garment. Given the black and white photography of the day, we can not tell much about color. We notice a few boys wearing striped jackets blazers, some of which look rather like colorful British school blazers. Of course the blazers German boys wore were not uniform blazers, but curiously we note one school in which several boys are wearing stripped jackets. We are not positive they are blazers, but they certainly look like it Figure 1). And it is curious that so many boys would wear similar jackets without the school playing a role. We count 11 boys wearing these jackets, nearly half the boys. The stripe patterns and probably the colors seem to have varied a bit. They do not have patch breast pockets like British school blazers, in part because there were no school crests to put on it. But they were not suits because the boys are not wearing stripped pants. Most of the other boys are also wearing jackets, but not stripped jackets. Notice that the boys are not wearing ties like British boys would weaer.

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