*** French school uniform : St. Maurice








Individual French Schools: Ecole St. Maurice (1921)

French school smocks
Figure 1.--We have no information about St. Maurice except the school portrait here from 1921. We do notv even know where the school was located. We think that it was probably a day school, more than likely an ecole. We assume that it was a Catholic school because it is named after a saint. Note that there are both boys and girls in the portrait. Often Catholic schools were single gender schools. The school seems to have had a strict rule that the children werar smocks, both the boys and girls.

We have no information about St. Maurice except the school portrait here from 1921. We do notv even know where the school was located. Many Catholic schools were named after saints and they were located all over France. There much have been several schools named after St. Maurice. We can see some of the school building in the background. It does not look to be a small village school. We do not know where this school was located. We think that it was probably a day school, more than likely an ecole. We assume that it was a Catholic school because it is named after a saint. Note that there are both boys and girls in the portrait. Often Catholic schools were single gender schools. The school seems to have had a strict rule that the children wear smocks, both the boys and girls. Smocks were optional at many schools. Ant time you see a school with all the children wearing smocks, it ios a strong indication that they were required by the school. There was no required style or color. They look to be back buttoning smocks done in various colors and patterns. The only significant difference besides the back-buttoning convention and color.pattern we note is the collar treatment. There are no readily apparent gender conventions. Some children wear their collars over the smock and some under the smock. Notice that all the children wear long syockings, mosdtly black long stockings. Long stockings were becoming less comoon in France, especially by the 1920s. Also notice the boys' short hair cuts. Until aftter World War I, French school boys commonly had short cropped hair. Here we see several boys with somewhat longer, but still short hair.







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