Figure 1.--Here we see a Russian primary class, we think in the 1970s. All the children wear white shirts or blouses. Note the different collars. Also note the two soldierts in the background. A Russian reader tells us that they wrre probably guests invited to speak to the children about their work. There are flowes on the table at the left. The children probably presented them to the soldiers.

White shirts were very commoWe normally see boys during the Soviet-era wear uniforms with white shirts. I do not know if any other colored shirts were worn with uniforms. White is the only color we have noted. There were both short- and long-sleeved shirts and different collars. One might have thought that in the Soviet Union that there would haved been one standard style for these white shirts, but there seem to have been several sttles used and apparently the schools did not insist on one specific style as long as the shirts were white. We do not know if the shirts were sold as regulation school uniform shirts in the stores. We also have no information about the fabric used. Presumnably cotton was the principal fabric. We do not know if polyester was used to create blended fabrics. We note boys wearing them with and without suit jackets. This may have been seasonal Some boys may have taken their jackets off once at school or did not wear then to school in the warm weather. One style was to wear the collar outside the jacket. The children after a couple yearsed their red scarves which were worn with the shirts. We see boys with both open and buttoned collars. The girls wore white blouses. I am not entirely sure as to just how they differed from the boys' blouses, but the collars were more varied.

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