Figure 1.--This family snapshot looks like the 1960s to us. This was a scene repeated daily all over Argentina. An boy coming home from school. He wears the lab coat smock (delantal) and carries briefcase which was the typical way kids went to school at the time. Girls often wore a different type of smock. Other children in white school smocks can be seen in the background. A reader writes, "1960? where are the cars and buses? There arr no cycles no parked cars. Interesting. The little boy is happy though. He has a great smile so something happy is happening when he gets home! Perhaps it was dad taking the snapshot."

We do not have much information on Argentine school smocks during the 1960s, but as far as we can tell, children continued to wear the white school smocks that begn to be worn in the 1920s. White school smocks were strandard in state primary schools. The family snapshot here is a good example of school wear (figure 1). The primary children of different ages, both boys and girls, all wear white smocks, but different styles. The boys wear front-buttoning lab-coat style smocks (delantals) and the girls and younger boys back-buttoning styles (guardapolvo). The gender specific styling appears to be well established. We also see smocks in secondary schools, but only the girls wearing them.

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Created: 10:58 PM 8/26/2017
Last updated: 10:58 PM 8/26/2017