Figure 1.--The students at this secondary school inj the 1970s are standing up when the teacher enters the room. The smock was required for all students, but apparently the rule was not being strictly enforced.
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Figure 1.--The students at this secondary school inj the 1970s are standing up when the teacher enters the room. The smock was required for all students, but apparently the rule was not being strictly enforced. |
Hungarian officials beginning in the 1960s required boys and girls to wear school smocks. Many available images show Hungarian boys wearing blue front-buttoning school smocks. Hungarian sources report that this was a national school regulation. Hungary in the 1960s had a Communist Government with a very centralized school system. School regulations such as wearing smocks were set by education authorities in the national government rather than each individual school. In some images almost all the boys were wear similarly styled school smocks. In other photographs there appear to be boys who wear them and others who do not. Apparently schools varied as to how strictly they enforced te regulations. Some schools appear to have allowed the boys to unbutton their smocks even during school which rather seems to defeat the purpose. HBC is unsure at this time as to just how strictly the school rule about smocks were enforced. Some available images show many boys wearing them unbuttoned.
Hungarian officials beginning in the 1960s required boys and girls to wear school smocks. Hungary in the 1960s had a Communist Government with a very centralized school system. School regulations such as wearing smocks were set by education authorities in the national government rather than each individual school. HBC does not have details at tis time on the specific provisions of the regulations. It is clear that the smocks required were blue front buttoning smocks. Many available images show Hungarian boys wearing blue front-buttoning school smocks. We do not know just how detiled the regulations were in specifying smock styles. We also do not know if there were regulations requiring boys to keep their smocks buttoned.
Hungary had national regulations concerning school smocks, however, enforcement varied greatly from school to school. In some available images almost all the boys were wear similarly styled school smocks. In other photographs there appear to be variations in smock styles. In other images there are boys who wear them and others who do not. Apparently schools varied as to how strictly they enforced te regulations. Some schools appear to have allowed the boys to unbutton their smocks even during school which rather seems to defeat the purpose. HBC is unsure at this time as to just how strictly the school rule about smocks were enforced. Some available images show many boys wearing them unbuttoned. It was different in every school. Both the regulatiions an strictly they were enforce varied. It depended on the habit of the teachers.
There were various aspects to the regulations concerning school smocks.
Hungarian sources report that schools beginning in the 1960s required boys and girls to wear smocks. Several European schools show boys wearing blue front-buttoning school smocks. HBC is unsure how common this was. In some films all the boys were wearing them. In other films there appear to be boys who wear them and others who do not. Hungary at the time had a Communist Government with a very centralized school system. School regulations such as weraing smocks might have been set by the central Government rather than each individual school, but few details are currently available. Some schools appear to have allowed the boys to unbutton their smocks even during school which rather seems to defeat the purpose. HBC is unsure at this time as to just how strictly the school rule about smocks were rnforced. Some available images show all the boys wearing them and other images show quite a number of boys who are not wearing them or are wearing them unbuttoned.
Available images show some schools where boys all wore similarly style blue smocks. Other images show chilren wearing smocks in a variety of styles. irls in particular wore variously styled smocks. Some girls by the 1980s even wore smocks of other colors such as red or blue smocks with detailing in contrasting colors such as red or white. Many schools were clearly not requiring one specific smock style.
Some allowed the children to unbutton their smocks, others insisted that they stay buttoned. Some school authorities apparently do not like students wearing their smocks without buttoning them up. This of course defeats one of the idea of wearing a smock in the first place, that is protecting the clothes. Other authorities believes that it looks slovenly to wear the smock unbuttoned. Perhaps for this reason, some schools in the 1990s that have retained smocks have chosen the apron or gardner style smock which does not have buttons. This appears to be a style worn ar primary schools, although available images show both traditional and apron-style smocks worn at the same school. The apron-style appears more popular with the girls.
If students came to school with their smocks, the school would warn parents or send the child home, especially for repeat infractions. This was reportedly typical in elementary schools.
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