Figure 1.--This is an undated commercial post card showing children from a rural village school. All the children wear traditional clothes. Note the cadet caps the boys wear. Some of the girls wear straw hats. The style of the postcard looks like the late 1920s or 30s to us. I am unsure about the accuracy of the colors. This was not a color photograph, although it couild be based on one. More likely it was imagined colors based on a black and white phjotograph. |
Our information on school clothing and uniforms during the early 20th century is still very limited. We are unsure to what extent schools had dress codes and uniforms. Ans we do not have sufficient information to follow changing school rules ober time. We think a range of factors were involved suchh as level and location. Urban and secondary schools appear to have more commonly had uniforms. We do not have detailed information at this time. We do have some images that clearly show uniforms in at least some urban schools. Uniforms in secondary schools had Prussian cadet uniforms for the boys and English middy blouses for the girls. We seem some schools having portraits taken in tradition clothes, suggesting that this was a kind of dress outfit for special occassions. We also see what look like uniforms at some primary school, mostly what look like tan shirts and long shoprt pants worn with cadet caps for the boys. We are less sure about the girls. Uniforms seem much less common in rural areas. We mostly see children in rural towns and villages wearing traditional clothes. Note inm the image here that some of the traditional outfits are full length garments and in other instances some children have jacket-like traditional garments that just come to the waist (figure 1). The boys wore cadet caps with their tradituioinazl outfits. Some girls wear straw hats.
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