Figure 1.--This postcard back school portrait shows a priest teahing at what looks like a small Catholic boys' school, we believe in the 1930s. As it is a mixed-age group, this seems to be the whole chool and not a class.

We have some limited infornation on Belgian schoolwear during the 1930s. Boys in primary school tended to dress more casually. We aee not yet sure about the Catholic schools. Belgian boys commonly wore short pants to school. They were almpst universal in primary schools. Boys still tended to wear suits to secondary school, There were still significan class differences. Working-class boys still mostly did not progress beyonf primary school. Short pants were also commonly worn in secondary schools. Most younger boys in secondry schools wore them up to about age 15 years. Families varied as to when boys made the transition from short to long pants. We are not sure at this time how this varied among the different types of school. It may have been more common in Catholic schools. Conservative families were more likey to chose Catholic schools. As best we can tell short pants were also common in the state schools. We do not have information about girls yet. Most schools seem to be single gender schools, especially secondary schools. Most boys wore short pants with knee socks to school. We are not sure about differences between Walonia and Flanders.