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School uniforms were worn during the Tsarist era. Boys in secondary schools wore cadet uniforms. We have little information about Estonian schools after independence during the inter-war era, but we notice many girls wearing pinafores. We note boys without school uniforms right after World War II (figure 1). We note boys wearing short pants including suspender shorts. One boy wears a sailor suit. There seem some rather old boys at the back, perhaps their education was delayed by World War II. Many boys have short, cropped hair. Presumably as the country began to recover from the War, the standard Soviet school uniform became more common and by the 1950s required. Children throughout the Soviet Union wore the same uniform. Boys wore a military-styleSince independence, Estonian school children no longer wear uniforms.
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