Figure 1.--This portrait was taken of the 1932-33 class and was marked secunde B. Many classes were sungle gender, but this was a mixed class. |
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We have information on only a few years at this time. Our information on the school is from the 1930s. There was no school uniformfor the boys. Here we are a little confused. Some photographs show all boys, some all girls and some mixed classes. In many of the photographs the girls wear black smocks. We are not sure what the dress regulations were in the 1930s.
The class we note in 1932-33 is quite a bit different than the 1935-36 all boys class. The 1932-33 class is marked Secunde B (figure 1). It is a mixed class with the girls wearing dark smocks. The boys are dressed differently. Two boys wear sailor suits. one a traditional and the ther a more stylish suit. The other boys wear a variety of short and long pants outfits. I'm not sure about the ages here, but we would guess 13-14 years old.
Many boys wore suits. We notice both single and dounle-breased suits, but no Norfolk jackets--a style that had early been very popular. Others boys did not. Some boys just came in shirts or wearing sweaters. This shows that there were not strict regulations at the school about how the boys should dress. Many boys wear ties, but there are boys with open collars as well. We see a few boys wearing sailor suits, but not very many. In the first 3 years almost all boys wore short pants. Here we are a little skeptical. Certainly it was very common for Italian boys to wear short pants in the 1930s. Our experience in looking at these school photographs, however is that there usually is considerable variety unless there is a set school regulation. The only similarity we note in the various school portraits of 1st-3rd year boys is that they all wear short pants. The only exceptions we note are a few boys wearing knickers or sailor suits with long pants. Except for the boys wearing sailor suits, we do not note any boys wearing long
pants. Of course we do not know what most of the boys in the back rows are wearing. We do not know, however, if there was any sort of school regulation. Most boys wear ankle socks rather than kneesocks, but this may be seasonal. There seems to be little difference in how the first and third year boys dressed in 1935. We are not sure about the older boys. There is a considerable variety of clothes.
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