Individual Swiss State Schools: Oberembrach Primary School

Figure 1.--This is a class of 10- or 11-year olds from the town of Oberembrach primary school. Their teacher, Herr Kägi is standing at the rear with a sweater under his suit jacket. The photo is dated November 11, 1952. All the children seem to be wearing long stockings except for one boy at the right (in front) who has on plus-fours. Notice that nearly all the boys wear suspenders with their short trousers which they wear on top of their pullover sweaters, which means, of course, that the sweaters have to be tucked into the trousers.

This is a class of 10- or 11-year olds from the town of Oberembrach primary school. Their teacher, Herr Kägi is standing at the rear with a sweater under his suit jacket. The photo is dated November 11, 1952. All the children seem to be wearing long stockings except for one boy at the right (in front) who has on plus-fours. Notice that nearly all the boys wear suspenders with their short trousers which they wear on top of their pullover sweaters, which means, of course, that the sweaters have to be tucked into the trousers. This was a common style in both Germany and Switzerland in the years after the war. This seems more commin at this school than most schools we have looked at. We see a boy with a belt rather than suspenders standing in the third row, but he, too, has his sweater tucked into his trousers. One boy in the center wears ribbed cotton stockings while most of the others seem to have on stockings of a smoother texture. These and othr school photographs show that long stockings were still very common at Swiss schools during the early-1950s. Many of the children wearing long stockings here will switch to knee socjkswhen the weather watms up. Back in the 1930s children often had to wear scratchy woolen stockings that were uncomfortable on the upper thigh, and boys complained about the scratchiness; but by the 1940s and 1950s warm stockings for winter wear ad been invented that were knitted of cotton and synthetic yarns and didn't scratch the upper legs. One boy sitting on the floor at the left has his white underpants slightly exposed because his shorts are a little too brief for this position. He doesn't seem in the least perturbed or embarassed by this. Notice his radiant smile.

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