Figure 1.--Most of the children wearing pinafores to school were girls. We believe that these children are girls, but it is not always easy to tell. There were, however, boys at this chool who also wore pinafores. Click on the image to see two of those boys. Image courtesy of the MD collection.

The pinafore is generally seen as a girls school garment. With the exception of very young boys, the vast proportion of cildren who wore pinafores to school were indeed girls. Many images of early British schools show the children all lined up in front of a school. The girls would be on one side in starched white pinafores and the boys in dark kneepants suits. We note some images of very young children with both the boys and girls wearing pinafores. For older children, however, it is almost always only the girls wearing pinafores to school. We do note, however, note a few images of older boys also wearing them. The images we have noted to date are all from England, but this may because we have greater access to English images.

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Created: March 27, 2003
Last updated: March 27, 2003