Figure 1.--Most boys in the 3rd grade wear short pants, mostly very identical looking "H-bar" suspender shorts, very similar to the ones that some of the kinderrgarten boys were wearing. Most of the girls wear identical white pinafores. None of the children wear their Pioneer kerchiefs.

HBC notes much more uniformuty in the 3rd grade class than was the case earlier. Most of the boys wear very similar suspender shorts with cross bars ("H bars"). The girls wear identical pinafores. A HBC reader finds it interesting that in the photo from 1961 all of the boys are wearing suspender shorts again, just as they had in kindergarten. He writes, "My guess is that in that year "State Children's Garment Factory #3" had overfilled their quota of nursery school styles for 8-year-olds, so that's what everybody had to wear." None of the children appear to be wearing their Pioneer kerchiefs.

The Class

This was class 3-D. Note that many of the children have Romanian rather than German names. The children were:
Oberste Reihe: Lehrerin Ilse Zwettler, Anton Szinner, Paul Vollrath, Dan Frank, Alexandru Isacescu, Bruno Rosenberg, Peter Radovici, Christian Hubert, Klaus Heydendrorff, Otto Schneider
Mittlere Reihe oben: Richard Henning, Peter Liess, Peter Hirsch, Ingeborg Schuller, Karin Marian, Cristina Pieptea, Christiane Wagner, Annemarie Spitzer, Matei Grigorescu, Peter W�chter, Sebastian Stoffel, Gusatv Rosa
Mittlere Reihe unten: Dana Beldimann, Angela Minasian, Johanna Baltinester, Erika Klein, Marietta Urschitz, Daniela Lauffer, Jutta Balint, Lucica Rusu, Edda Schuller
Unterste Reihe: Erwin Georgi, Walter Dick, Danut Rotariu, Christian Stetiu, Mihai Teodorescu

It is difficult to tell, but these children look younger than the second grade children. We note that more boys wear H-bar suspender shorts and the girls pinafores which the 2nd graders do not. We would ghave though that these styles would be more common in the 2nd grade.

Figure 2.--HBC does not understand why none of the children are wearing their Pioneer kerchiefs.

Pioneer Kerchiefs

The children do not wear their Pioneer kerchiefs. We would have thought that more 3rd graders wold have worn them.

Smocks

None of the boys are wearing smocks.

Suspender Shorts and Skirts

All of the boys in the 3rd grade wear appear to be wearing short pants, mostly very identical looking "H-bar" suspender shorts, very similar to the ones that some of the kindergarten boys were wearing. A HBC reader finds it interesting that in the photo from 1961 all of the boys are wearing suspender shorts again, just as they had in kindergarten. He writes, "My guess is that in that year "State Children's Garment Factory #3" had overfilled their quota of nursery school styles for 8-year-olds, so that's what everybody had to wear." With the kind of uniformity seen with the boys short pants and the girls' pinafores, there would seem to be two alterative explanations: 1) there was virtually no choice in the stores or 2) the school was insisting on these styles. East Germany was no consumer paradise, but it was the most affluent East-bloc country and the narrow range here seenms to be more resticted than usual. Of course this school is in Romania where consumer goods were less available. The school could have been insisting ion a certain style, but this does not seem to have been the case in other years.

Pinafores

Three girls still wear crisp white pinafores like the kindergatren children. Only one of the girls wear white hairbows. I do not se any hairbows, but there are a lot of hairbands.

Sweaters

None of the children wear sweaters. It looks like the portrait was taken on a warm day.

Figure 3.--Notice how common the "H-bar" suspender shorts are for the boys and the white pinafores are for the girls.

Shirts

The boys wear a variety of colored and white shirts, with the white ones being more common. Unlike other years, there are no plaid shirts/ Several are short-sleeved shirts.

Socks

Some children wear colored and white ankle socks.

Footwear

I can not make out what kibnd of footwear the children are wearing.

Hair Cuts

The boys all have relatively short hair cuts, A few boys have quite close cropped hair.

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