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Greek boys at primary schools did not commonly wear suits. We see some boys wearing sailor suits, not as a uniform, but just regular clothes. Sailor outfirs were very popular in Europe. Greece seems to have been a country where sailor suits were especially popular at least among middle-class families. So we mostly see them in city schools. Girls also wore sailor outfits. There were even a few schools that had a sailor suit uniform. That was, however, not very common. Here is an example. Here we see children at an unidentified Greek school doing exercises. They have a sailor blouse uniform (figure 1). They seem to be all boys. We are not sure how to date the photograph, probably the 1950s. A reader writes, "I cannot tell if you are correct that all of the children are boys. The closest child maybe a girl as the child's hair is cut long (for the 1950s a girlish style) and her shorts have a band front (also a girlish style). That being said, it just makes it more difficult to guess. If I knew that Greek schools had single gender classes (at that age) or if I could see the entire class in the photo I would be more certain of your assessment." The child does have a rather girlish hair style. But notice these are all very young boys. At this age, however, this is sometimes seen. Our major thought line is that in the 19509s, having a school uniform of pants for girls was very unusual. And all the other children are boys. At any rate a sailor suit unifiorm was rare. We see sailor suits in Greek scghools, but mostly as a style individyually selcted by the parents. Our Greek archive is still limited. We do not have any chronological informatuion yet as all of the images we have collected come from the mid-20th century.
Greek boys at primary schools did not commonly wear suits. We see some boys wearing sailor suits, not as a uniform, but just regular clothes. Sailor outfirs were very popular in Europe. Greece seems to have been a country where sailor suits were especially popular at least among middle-class families. So we mostly see them in city schools.
Girls also wore sailor outfits. The styles were similar, except of course the girls wore skirts ratherv than pants like the boys.
There were even a few schools that had a sailor suit uniform. That was, however, not very common. Here is an example. Here we see children at an unidentified Greek school doing exercises. They have a sailor blouse uniform (figure 1). They seem to be all boys. We are not sure how to date the photograph, probably the 1950s. A reader writes, "I cannot tell if you are correct that all of the children are boys. The closest child maybe a girl as the child's hair is cut long (for the 1950s a girlish style) and her shorts have a band front (also a girlish style). That being said, it just makes it more difficult to guess. If I knew that Greek schools had single gender classes (at that age) or if I could see the entire class in the photo I would be more certain of your assessment." The child does have a rather girlish hair style. But notice these are all very young boys. At this age, however, this is sometimes seen. Our major thought line is that in the 19509s, having a school uniform of pants for girls was very unusual. And all the other children are boys. At any rate a sailor suit uniform was rare.
We see sailor suits in Greek schools, but mostly as a style individyually selcted by the parents. And primarily at the city schools. Our Greek archive is still very limited. We do have very little information on Greek sailor suits worn by Greek boys. We do not see any destinctive Greek styles, but notice French and German influences. Greece is very small country and thus fashiion is strongly inluenced by the major countries in Europe. The royal family with German origins had some influence. We have fond both school photographs and studio portraits. We note both plain sailor suits and those with the popular stripe detailing.
We do not have any chronological informatuion yet as all of the images we have collected come from the mid-20th century. Most of our Greek images come from the period after World War I beginning with the 1920s. The image here looks to date to the 1950s (figure 1).
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