Figure 1.--These boys wear the classic Italian blue school smock with wide white collar. One boy seems to have a different colored smock.
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Figure 1.--These boys wear the classic Italian blue school smock with wide white collar. One boy seems to have a different colored smock. |
We have manged to find very little information on Italian school uniforms. Hopefully some of the Italian visiors to this web site will provide some information. I believe the pattern in Italy has been similar to that of France. Most schools did not require a formal school uniform like that common in England. Rather Italian elementary children have worn smocks over their regular clothes. Often a single style of smock was required. Many schools had a dark blue smock worn with a wide Peter Pan collar. Atvone time this appears to have been a national requitement. We do not at this time have any chronmolgical information on Italian school smocks. Gradually different colors of smocks appeared. Also schools eventually made the smock optional.
We have manged to find very little information on Italian school uniforms. Hopefully some of the Italian visiors to this web site will provide some information.
A basic understanding of the Italian school system is needed to undrastand how clothing differed at the various schools. Schools are similar to the educational system that has developed in other European countries. We have some information on the current system, but still little information on the Italian school system before the modern era.
The three major types of schools in Italy are the state schools, religious schools (Mostly Catholic), and privae schools. Schoolwear has varied at these different school types. The schools has varied over time as well as the state's control over the different schools.
Some private Italian schools have required uniforms. I have been unable, however to collect any information on Italian school uniform regulations.
HBC believes that chronological trends concerning schoolwear in Italy has been similar to that of France. This is in part because children in both countries have not traditioanlly worn school uniforms and school clothes are thus in large measure a reflection of regular clothing trends. One major exceotion is school smocks. French boys tended to wear smocks less after World War II (1939-45) and even more so after the 1950s. School smocks in Italy, however, continued to be commonly worn even into the 1970s. While declining in the 1980s and 90s, some Italian children still wear them in the 2000s, although generally younger children in primary school.
Most schools did not require a formal school uniform like that common in England. Rather Italian elementary children have worn smocks over their regular clothes. Also schools eventually made the smock optional.
Figure 2.--Some Italian school children wear smocks. At some schools the boys wear blue smocks and the girls pink smocks. Checkered ginham smocks are also worn. |
Often a single style of smock was required. Many schools had a dark blue smock worn with a wide Peter Pan collar. At one time this appears to have been a national requitement. We do not at this time have any chronmolgical information on Italian school smocks.
Gradually different colors of smocks appeared.
The school garment most associated with Italy of course is the school smock. Italian school smocks have varied over time. The classic style was a dark blue or black smock worn with a wide white collar and big floppy red bow. Originally smocks buttoned at the back. Many schools no longer require smocks, but a number of Itlalin schools still do. Boys generally prefer front buttoning smocks and this style has become more common. Colors have changed too. Some schools have different colors for boys and girls. Common colors include different shades of blue, white, and pink. While scome schools have required students to wear smocks, there seems to have been a wide toleration as to just what the children wore under their smocks.
HBC is collecting information on individual Italian schools.
HBC has little information on the Tangiers Scuola Italiano, but we have noted several images illustrating schoolwear trends during the 1950s. The pupils wear the classic dark Italian back-buttoning school smock with emaculate wide white colars. The school appears to have been very strict about the style and color of the smocks woren to school. Not only are the smocks identical, but so are the white colars. While almost all of the children wear school smocks, in most of the class photographs there usualy
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