Figure.-- This photograph shows the First Grade class in a Chicago public school during 1957. Note all the short crew cut type hair cuts the boys have. I was a First Grader only a few years earlier in 1949. And recall this is how children dressed at the time. I also recall the short hair cuts, but not nearly as many. Boys wore casual shirts, often buttoned at the collar. Girls wore prim dresses like the ones we see here. The only clothing differences I see are two of the children in front.

This photograph shows the First Grade class in a Chicago public school during 1957. Note all the short crew cut type hair cuts the boys have. I was a First Grader only a few years earlier in 1949. And recall this is how children dressed at the time. I also recall the short hair cuts, but not nearly as many. Boys wore casual shirts, often buttoned at the collar. Girls wore prim dresses like the ones we see here. The only clothing differences I see are two of the children in front. One boy with a fashion concious wears a smart sports jacket and bowtie with short pants. And the girl beside him whose mother was less concerned about formality also wears short pants. I don't recall either outfits in elementary (primary) school when growing up in Washington, D.C. There were differences at the time. We do see some short pants in the South, but boys wearing suits and sports jackets with short pants were not very common.

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