Figure 1.--Here we have Soviet secondary school we think in the 1950s. We are not sure just which year class this is, but they were some of he older girls at the school. |
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Pinafores were worn to school by girls of all ages, although we see fewer being worn by older teenagers. Countless photographic omages show this, especially in the 19th century. Here we only have images from the alte-19th centurty. Photography was noty invented until mid-enturt (1839). But public education was just bginning to be organized in the erarly-19th century in most countries. They were very common for girls at primary schools which in England might mean girls as old as 14 years. In our images of American schools the same genrally seems to be the case. After that age girls become much more fashion concu=ious and did not want their dresses covered up. That does nor mean that teenagers did not wear pinafores, it does mean that they began to be less common after the early teens. After this age they gradually become somewhat less common. Thanks to the popularity of school photography, we can follow this in some detail once the school portarit began to become an established convention (1880s). There were even some boys who wore pinafores. In more modern times, it was primarily Soviet girls seen wearing pinafores. And this was girls of all ages in Soviet schools. It was younger boys who were the ones who normally wore pinafores, primarily nursery school children. We have, however, noted a few primart-age bots wearing pinafores as well. Not many but a few.
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