Figure 1.--This French school boy was photographed in 195? by famed French photographer Doisneau. He wears a light colored back-buttoning smock (tablier) with contrasting dark colored detailing and strips at the collar and pockets. |
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Sometimes contrasting colors rather than patterns Were used for detailing. We are am not sure just what colors were used. The examples we have found comefrom the 1950s bedore color photography was common. As they weere often used in lighter-colored smocks, the color used was dark. We believe it was generally a darker shade of wha ever color was used for the smock. In some cases as we see here stripes might be added long with the color patch (figure 1) . Solid colored detailing could presumably also be used on patterned smocks, but we have not yet found examoles. As with the patterened detailing, the same detailing might be repeated on different parts of the smock.
A French reader reports that the smock shown here was a very common style from the 1930s to the early 1960s (figure 1). We think the photogrph here was tajen in the 1950s. It was a back buttoning style, the most commonly worn style at the time.
