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Argentine children at public schools were required to wear white smocks to school in the 1930s. Our archive is limited, bnut this seems to have been very widely observd. There appear to be different styles for boys and girls. Boys wore front-buttoning lab-type smocks. The girls wore back-buttoning smocks with Peter Pan collars. We are not sure if the different styles were required by the Governmnt regulations or convntions which developed. Hopefully Argentine readers can provide details on this. We notice bows at a few schools, but they do not seem very common and apparently were not required, but the children could wear them if they so desired.. They were common in neigboring Uruguay. Girls wore dresses of their own choice under the smocks. Many boys wore short pants and knee socks, depending on their age. This was as far as we know decided by the parents and not the schools. We areb not sure if any private schools also adopted the white smocks.
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