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This photo was taken at Bjärka-Säby School in southern Sweden (about 1920). Clearly the pupils have dressed up for the photo. We don't think that so boys usually wore their sailor suit at school on a normal day in a rural school like this one. They may jhave been more common in city school. The sailor suit was probably these boys dress-up garment. About bare feet, it seem to me that the attitude in northern Europe was different than in in the south. In southern Europe (Spain, Italy, Greece) there are places where children could go barefoot all year round because the warm weather. In Sicily and in Sardinia, for example, many children at the time didn't own any footwear. So the shoes became a status symbol and its lack in an official occasion a sign of poverty. In northern Europe all the children had to wear some sort of footwear in winter. Bare feet were not seen as the sign that the child didn't own any shoes. Moreover the children had to wore shoes during most of the year and probably they were happy to leave the footwear in the short spring and summer.
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