Diafilms "Your Pioneer Uniform": Frame 11--Boys' Standard Uniform (1967)


Figure 1.--This text of this 1967 diafilm pannel read, "You, pioneer, have a uniform also. What is it? Here, look. A dark blue flight-cap with a USSR coat-of-arms. Knee-socks are checked, gray and dark-blue. Grey shirt. For boys - dark-blue long trousers or shorts."

The diafilm text read, "You, pioneer, have a uniform also. What is it? Here, look. A dark blue flight-cap with a USSR coat-of-arms. Knee-socks are checked, gray and dark-blue. Grey shirt. For boys - dark-blue long trousers or shorts." Note the campaign caps are called flight caps in the Soviet Union. We are not sure just why, perhaps this was a Red Air Force cap. Both boys and girls wore them. (This was not very common in the West.) Apparently the grey shirt was rarher like the British grey school shirt, designed fore everyday war because it did not show the dirt like a white shirt. This is not a uniform we have seen in the photographic record, especially the checked knee socks. We are not sure to what extent it corresonded with the school uniform. This was important because the Pioneers were a school based program. We also do not note a lot of boys wearing the short pants uniform except at camp or for special occassions. A Russian reader tells us, "I have noted that Soviet authorities several times tried to make one standard uniform for all Pioneers. But everytime such attempts failed." This is interesting. American Scouts in a much more open society had no trouble establishing a standard uniform.








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