 Figure 1.--This is one of the third year classes at the Ginasio Parini in Milan during 1935. The boys would be about 14 years old. This would be a state secondary school. Click on the image to see the rest of the class. |
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This portrait of the Ginnasio Estatale Parini was taken of the 1935-36 class. It was ab all boy class. There was no school uniform. We are not sure what the dress regulations were in the 1930s. 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 varuious 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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