U.S. School Clothes: Wood School (Tennessee, 1902)


Figure 1.--Here we sse a rural primary school. It is the Wood School in Bedford County, Tennessee. The schools usually taught children through grade 8. That would normally be children about 13 years old. Often at these schools there were older children because some of the boys took a little longer to get through the program because of demands on the farm.

Here we sse a rural primary school. It is the Wood School in Bedford County, Tennessee. The schools usually taught children through grade 8. That would normally be children about 13 years old. Often at these schools there were older children because some of the boys took a little longer to get through the program because of demands on the farm. Some of the boys look like older teenagers. Notice the older boys center hair parts. The younger boys have side parts. We have a portrait from 1902. The boys came to school in shorts and pants. We only see a few blouses with with large collars, a popular style at the time. Notice thst suspenders were common, but not worn with blouses. The boys wear long ants and knee pants. At a city school the children would have dressed more fashionably, most of the boys would have worn knee pants. Notice that none of the boys wear overalls.








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