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We have found some school photograpohs where all the children are wearing smocks, more commonly where smocks were worn we note quite a few children not wearing them. It looks rather like the children were encouraged to wear smocks, but that they were not mandatory. The dress code looks rather loosely enforced. While we have found very few images of children wearing smocks as part of a school uniform, we believe that smocks were more commonly used for youger children or for especially messy activities like art activities to protect their clothes. This seens to be the primary reason for the smocks in Britain. This is very different tjan in France and Italy where the primary purpose was to obsure social inequity, some children dressung better than the others. This was not a factor in England because smocks were not worn in the atate schools.
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