Figure 1.-- Here we see an unidentified small group which we believe to be English school boys. Given their age (about 8 years old), we think that they are probably the new boys at a prep school. An Anglican school is possible because it looks like a church activity room. Of course many prep shools had Aglicam connections. We have no idea why the boys are wearing berets, perhaps it was part of a French lesson. We supose they could be visitors from France, bnt the boys look more British than French to us and after World War II, for some reason, the beret rapidly went out of style in France. The portrait looks to have been taken in the very early 1960s, perhaps the late-50s. Click on the image for a fuller discussion.

Berets were commonly worn by Frebch boys, but no girls. We see them being worn in other countris. We see quite a few German boys wearing them. In America younger boys might wear berets. And they were very common for girls in the inter-War era, usually called tsns. We virtually never see English boys wearing berrts and we so not see them being worn by boys as part of school uniforms. We do see girls wearing bertet aspart of their school uniform in England, but not boys. Berets were faitky common for the gurls. Boy Scouts after World War II adopted berets, but not schools, at least for boys. We found one portrait of one class of younger boys wearing berets. We do not believe the berets were opart of theur school unifirm, although all the boys are wearing them. It looks like an Anglican or a prep school class. We are not sure what to make of it. We think it might be a class group studying French. Perhaps there is another explanation, but we can not think of it.