Figure 1.--Note that these chool boys, probably in the early 1950s, wear smocks with rounded collars. Pointed collars were more common for boys, but younger boys mightr sear the rounded collar smocks. Notice the boy between them wears a shirt with a rounded collar.

Early French school smocks were collarless. Some boys wore them with large with collars, but his was a minority of the boys. We are mot yet sure if boys tended to wear their shirt collars inside or outside thaeir smocks. It should be remembered that many shirts in the late 19th century were called waists and were worn with detachable collars. We are less sure about early girls' smocks. Many boys' smocks were collarless even by the 1930s. Some boys' smocks, however, did come with collars. Boys' smocks that did have collars generally had pointed collars while girls more commonly had rounded Peter-Pan collars. HBC still has realtively limited information on collars and it is a topic that reaquires further investigation.