Figure 1.--The class picture here is undated, but looks to hav been taken about 1935. A HBC reader indicates that this is an origional photograph from an Italian school that Marcello Mastroianni attended. It is unmistakable which boy he is (5th from left, top row). |
We note many boys wearing smocks in school during the 1930s. One class photograph was taken about 1935. All the boys wear similar looking smocks, probably light blue, with white collars and white bows. All of the boys wear white bows, but there are some differences in the bows. As all the boys wear the same smocks they are clearly required. We are not sure if there was any national requirement in Italy at this time. Italy in the 1930s was under the control of Benito Musolini's Fascists. Perhaps his was a school rule. There semes to have been no requirement as to what the boys wore with their smocks, although most boys wore short pants. The boys here almost all seem to be wearing short pants with smocks, although one boy in the fromt row wears long pants. There was clearly no rule about shoes and socks as there is clearly no uniformity. The styles range from no socks at all to ankle socks to knee socks of different
patterns. Colors of shoes and socks aren't consistent either. One boy in the front row, far left is wearing knickers with his smock, which may indicate that boys in second and back rows may have been wearing either long pants, knickers, or short pants under the smocks. There are 35 boys in the full class portrait and they are pictured with their teacher. There looks to be some difference in the age of the boys, perhaps a normal difference in a class of this size. We would guess that they are 11-12 years olds. Some of the boys at the back look like they might even be 13 years old.
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