Figure 1.-- None of the boys wear the school blazer. Rather the boys wear a variety of grey sweaters with the school tie. Some children are wearing shorts, some others kilts. Schools did not have uniform kilts. Rather the boys chose their own kilts, nornally family clan plaids. We also notice both sandals and shoes. Put your cursor ob the image to see the rest of the class.

Here we see a kindergarten class portrait. This would presumably mean 5-6 year olds. All we know for sure is that it was taken at a Aberdeen school during 1947-48. The school is unidentified. It looks to us like a private school, although we are not sure. We think that kilts were more common at private schools than state schools. Aberdeen is the most northerly large city in Scotland. And kilts were more common in the Higlands than southerm Scotland. If it is, like we think, a private school, we suspect it is the Robert Gordon's College. This was an academy and the best known private school in Aberdeen. Perhaps Scottish readers will recognize the building in the background. They look like homes in a good neighborhood and not school buildings. Robert Gordon's College had a uniform, but at many schools the kindergarteners and the pre-schoolers often did not wear the uniform. None of the boys wear the school blazer. Rather the boys wear a variety of grey sweaters with the school tie. Some children are wearing shorts, some others kilts. Schools did not have uniform kilts. Rather the boys chose their own kilts, nornally family clan plaids. We also notice both sandals and shoes.

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