Figure 1.--WWe notice many primary school boys wearing black or perhaps navy blue smockis in the 1950s. Often they wore them with wide white collars, many mothers added floppy bows--we believe red bows. This convention is so wide spread that we think nation-wide government regulations were involved, but we do not have details on the regulations at this time. Here we see Ozzano Monferrato School which was located near Turin during the 1954-55 school year.

We notice many primary school boys wearing dark (black or perhaps navy blue) smocks in the 1950s. They were very common and we have a 1950s school smock page. Most boys wore them with wide white collars, normally the Peter Pan rounded style. Many mothers added floppy bows--we believe red bows. This varied, hiowever, not all boys had the boes. This convention is so wide spread that we think nation-wide government regulations were involved, but we do not have details on the regulations at this time. Unless it was required we do not think that there would have been such notable conformity. But t many schools not all boys wore the smocks. and at vothers none of th boys re wearing smocks. Most boys in the 50s are wearing short pants with their school smocks. Here I think this was just the fashion rather than being required by the school, but there may have been some variation from school to school. Here we see Ozzano Monferrato School which was located near Turin during the 1954-55 school year. One aspect we are unsure of is if there were differences between state schools and Catholic schools. We do not know, for examplw, what kind of school the Ozzano Monferrato School was other than a primary school. We also see many noys wearing school smocks in our 1950s individual Italian school page.

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