Figure 1.--This family snapshot is undated, but we believe it was taken in the late 1950s. The boy wears the lab-coat style of front buttoning smock that was so common in Argentina for boys.
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Figure 1.--This family snapshot is undated, but we believe it was taken in the late 1950s. The boy wears the lab-coat style of front buttoning smock that was so common in Argentina for boys. |
HBC has little chronological information on Argentine school smock styles. I am not sure when they were first adopted. Smocks in Argentina initially buttoned in the back, especially for women. A reader reports that his mother pointed out that there were two different terms: smocks were front-buttoned, and dusters were back-buttoned. We see both types worn at school. By the 1970s when our Argentine source went to school, the two different terms were used indistinctly. The lab-coat style of front buttoning smock became standard for boys. Girls used both types. Boys except for the very youngest only wore front-buttoned smocks. Girls wear back buttoning styles with Peter Pan collars. Boys currently seem to wear front buttoning styles with lapels like jackets.
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