Figure 1.--Here in a photograph that looks to have been taken about 1970, a primary teacher wears a white smock. Her student wesars a colored smock.
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Figure 1.--Here in a photograph that looks to have been taken about 1970, a primary teacher wears a white smock. Her student wesars a colored smock. |
An Argentine reader tells us that smocks were made compulsory for teachers in 1914, because they were perceived as an appropriate attire that showed modesty and austerity. We have no details on actual government regulations. It's interesting that teachers could be mandated what to wear, but not children. Our reader believes, "It perhaps made sense from the point of view of the state, but on the other hand it remains highly symbolic of whose "property" the teachers are." We note that school,portraits do commonly show teachers wearingb smocks both in and outside the classroom. This appears to include both men and women teachers. Many of these smocks are white, but we notice other colors as well. All of the teachers wear the front-buttoning lab smock style. Here in a photograph that looks to have been taken about 1970, a primary teacher wears a white smock. Her student wesars a colored smock.
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