Individual Swiss State Schools: Winterthur School--Primary School

Figure 1.--This image comes from a class at the upper end of the primary grades. This boy is at least eleven and perhaps 12 (about 8th grade level in American terms). He is very neatly dressed in a wool pullover sweater with shirt buttoned at the collar with no necktie. He wears short trousers with long tan stockings, obviously with a Strapleibchen (probably with four supporter straps). Many boys his age wore baggy knickers to school in 1946 Switzerland, but long stockings worn with shorts were still quite popular with a fairly large minority of the boys, perhaps because they were less bulky and offered greater freedom of movement, important for boys who liked to hike in the mountains.

The second image comes from a different photo--a class at the upper end of the primary grades. This boy is at least eleven and perhaps 12 (about 8th grade level in American terms). He is very neatly dressed in a wool pullover sweater with shirt buttoned at the collar with no necktie. He wears short trousers with long tan stockings, obviously with a Strapleibchen (probably with four supporter straps). Many boys his age wore baggy knickers to school in 1946 Switzerland, but long stockings worn with shorts were still quite popular with a fairly large minority of the boys, perhaps because they were less bulky and offered greater freedom of movement, important for boys who liked to hike in the mountains.

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Created: 10:05 AM 1/18/2011
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