Figure 1.-- Here we see some of the younger children at an unidentified Polish primary school in 1957 with their teacher. She certainly has a large class, about 50 children. That is a very large number for a primary class. . Almost all of the girls and about half of the boys wear school smocks.

We are not sure when the Polish Governmebnt instituted smocvks for school children. Wehave only a few Polish school images so we can not yet follow school wear trends in detail. We note school portraits from the 1940s and-early 1950s in whih the children are not wearing smocks. The Communists of couse tool over at the end of World War II (1945). We do not begin noticing the school smocks in the mid-50s. The first portrait we have at this time is an unidentifed school in 1957. Most of the younger children wear smocks, Almostt all the girls and about half of the boys. We are not sure why there is a gender disparity here. Given the level of compliance, the school must have insisted on the smocks. We are not sure why the boys seem to require a little more encouragement. The white collars also seem to have been introduced at this time. They seem to be white shirts/blouses, but in other images they look to be collars pinned on to the smocks. We also do not know just how they delt with children not coming to school in the smocks. most chiolprimarily with short pants. We notice some older boys from the samne school not wearing smocks. Either they did not have to or they took their smocks off for some reason. A reader though that perhaps the smocks were introduced for the younger children first. We are not yet sure about that. We also notice the Katowice No, 34 School in the 1963-64 school year. We think that smocks were introduced before this, but we sre not sure yet precisely when. We also do not know when the children stiopped wearing smocks. We think it was some time in the 1980s.

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