Figure 1.--Boys at this private school wore short pants suits, looking rather like British boys. This looks like the first year class. |
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HBC believes that Argentine primary children in state schools wore white smocks in the 1950s. HBC is not sure when the smock was first adopted, but believes it was well before the 1950s. Other than the smock, state schools did not require uniforms. Primary children wore what ever they want under their smocks. I am not sure about school wear trends at state secondary schools. Most private schools required uniforms. Suits were common in the 1950s, often short pants suits worn with kneesocks. Some schools had uniforms styled quite similarly to British school uniforms. Here there was presumably a connection with the affluent classes that sent their children to the private schools. We are not sure just why British styles were so popular. Spanish and Italians were the principl immigrant groups. Presumably this was the origin of the white smocks.
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