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Historically HBC is not sure what color smocks boys and girls wore. We see many images of boys and girls wearing dark smocks during the early-20th century before World War II. In more recent years, Italian boys generally wore dark-colored smocks. Girls and very young boys have been more likely to wear light-colored smocks. We are not sure when light colors first appeared. We see them in the 1930s, bit are not yet sure about earlier periods. There were no hard set rules as we see the girls here wearing dark-colored smocks. Dark-colored smocks for boys and light-colored smocks for girls was, however, a very prevalent convention. Just what the colors were we are not sure. We think the dark-colored smocks were commonly navy blue. We are not sure about the lihjt-colored smocks. Some were white, but there may have been light colors as well. We do not begin to see colored images until the 1970s. We see some girls wearing pinl smocks, but we do not nelieve tht was the case in the early- and mid-20th century.
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