Individual Swiss School: Höngg School

Figure 1.-- This is the Höngg School in Zurich. The photo was taken on 5 February 1932, obviously a chilly day. This is a sixth grade class, the children being about ten or eleven. The teacher's name was Herr Strickler. Three of the boys are wearing knee socks with their short trousers (despite the cold), but all the others are wearing the more common long stockings, which is true also of the girls.

This is the Höngg School in Zurich. The photo was taken on 5 February 1932, obviously a chilly day. This is a sixth grade class, the children being about ten or eleven. The teacher's name was Herr Strickler. Three of the boys are wearing knee socks with their short trousers (despite the cold), but all the others are wearing the more common long stockings, which is true also of the girls. One boy wears a jacket in the first row (extreme left), which seems to be part of a suit, but he wears no tie and has a sweater on underneath the jacket. The others boys wear sweaters with collars or open-necked shirts underneath their sweaters. The long stockings are of dark colors--either dark brown or black. Most of the boys seem to be in high-top hiking boots, although a few have regular low-cut Oxford-style shoes. Notice one boy who wears a belt over his sweater. This was a style that we have seen in other Swiss photos during the 1920s and 1930s. Notice that the long stockings here are already quite long, necessarily so to come up under shorter-style trousers, and obviously held neatly in place by supporters, probably attached to a Strapsleibchen. A number of the girls wear their hair in pigtails but there seem to be no pinafores in this photo.

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