Figure 1.--Pierre Joubert here shows a boy wearing a beret and school cape. The French word or school cape is "pélerine".
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Figure 1.--Pierre Joubert here shows a boy wearing a beret and school cape. The French word or school cape is "pélerine". |
The school smock is probably the school garment most associated with with French schoolboys, even though French boys do now not commonly wear them. Smocks were, however, worn by children in many other countries besides France. One garment was less commonly worn, but generally restricted to only France and Belgium. That was the school cape, worn by boys and girls. It was modst common at private schools. I'm not sure why capes were worn rather than jackets. We notice Jobert draws a character wearing both a beret and cape.
A French reader tells us that the word for school cape is "pélerine". A "pélerine" was not a raincoat, but a sort of coat without sleeves. Boys also used the English word "cape". The pélerine was more common before World War II. A "capuchon" is another sort of raincoat without sleeves which were also worn through the 1950s. The "capuchon" was a kind of raincoat without sleeves. Boys in the when the weather was raining would say "Il pleut, je dois mettre mon capuchon." (It's raining, I must put on my raincoat." Today neither the pélerine or capuchon isworn. They have been replaced by the "imperméable" which is a raincoat with sleeves.
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