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We know much more about Gernan's children wear in the 20th century. We have a very extensive archive and it is clear that smocks were not very common for German children, both boys and girls, either at school or in homes during the 20th century. Alsace-Loraine was oart of Germany thriough 1918 and for a short period during World War II. We do not know if smocks were worn there. We do note a variety of images of pre-school children wearing smocks which seems to continue into the 1930s. HBC has noted some younger German boys wearing smocks to school during the late-19th and early-20th century. After World War I (1914-18) smocks virtually disappeared as fashions associated with the English and French became unpopular. We do note boys wearing pinafore-smocks. They differed from French smocks in that they did not have sleeves. The style seems to be primarily for boys as girls more commonly wore actual, pinafores which were very common in the earl-20th century. After the NAZIs seized power in 1933, smocks as far as we can tellwere no longer seen in Germany, except for very young boys who might still wear the opinafore smocks. We have found one snapshot of boys wearing smock-like garments after World War II in the late-1940s (figure 1).
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