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Italian school uniform chronology -- chronologia italiana del uniform della scuola School 1937
Italian School Uniform: Unidentified School (1937)
Figure 1.-- Here we have a class portrait from an unidentified Italian school, presumbly a primary school. The children look to be about 10-11 years old. This would make them some of he older children at the school. They are 23 children which suggests about 160 children at the school, unless there are more than one class for each form/grade age group. The differences in the smocks here suggest that whilke the Government required snocks that it was up the individual schools as to details like color, length, design, collars, bows, and other details. Many schools like the school here decided on gender differences for the boys and girls.
Here we have a class portrait from an unidentified Italian school, presumbly a primary school. The children look to be about 10-11 years old. This would make them some of he older children at the school. They are 23 children which suggests about 160 children at the school, unless there are more than one class for each form/grade age group. The differences in the smocks here suggest that whilke the Government required snocks that it was up the individual schools as to details like color, length, design, collars, bows, and other details. Many schools like the school here decided on gender differences for the boys and girls. The girls seem to be wearing white smocks with bows. The boys wear light colored smocks without bows. We are not sure about the color of the boys;' smocks, perhaps light blue. We assume they are all the same color. All he children have large white collars, although they very in size. And they exhibit just about every cut imaginable. There seems more variery here than we see at most other schools. Almost all of the smocks, including those for boys, appear to be back buttoning. The smocks vary quite a bit in length. One boy notably has tucked his smock into his waistband, wearing it like a shirt. This was, however, not very common. They are photographed with their teacher who is wearing a heavy overcoat, so the portrait was presumably taken during the winter. As seems standard in Italy, there are no belts worn with the smocks.
