Figure 1.--Here are the two older children with their teacher. We are not sure, but the boy appears to be wearing a grey smock. None of the girls are wearing smocks.
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Figure 1.--Here are the two older children with their teacher. We are not sure, but the boy appears to be wearing a grey smock. None of the girls are wearing smocks. |
We at first thought that none of the older children, both the boys and girls, were wearing smocks. We are unsure, but there may be one exception, the older boy in the image on the previous page at the upper right. A reader points out that he seems to be wearing a light-colored smock (figure 1). He may well be correct. Many French smocks at the time were black or dark blue. There were also, however, some grey smocks. Presumably this is a grey smock. We have seen many French schools where virtually all of the children wear smocks, so it seems a little unusual to see only one boy (especially the oldest boy, and not the girl wearing a smock. We are not sure why the children here are not wearing smocks. Perhaps smocks were not widespread at this time, but they were introduced by the new French Republic in the 1870s and we thought they were widely worn. Perhaps they were not very common in rural schools. We know smocks were very common in rural schools by the 1920s, but we are less sure about the 1900s. Perhaps the children dressed especially for the portrait or took their smocks off for the photograph. Here we just are not sure and hope our French readers will have some insights to add.
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