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The first day of school was September 1 or the first week day after September 1. We do not know when First Day celebrations were important events. We are not sure about the Tsarist era, but it was a major event in the old Soviet Union and continues to be so today. We note celebrations in the 1970s. Here we see a First Day celebration about 1880 (figure 1). One traveler reported in on September 1, 2000, 'Children!' they were children. Literally hundreds, and carrying bundles of flowers. Little girls dressed in black dresses and white tights, white frilly decorations rising 30cm from their heads, plaits shiny and neat. Boys no higher than my hips in ties and bow ties, hair wet, slicked back so that their fresh young scalps were visible. Hair even cut." In Soviet days the boys would have been wearing brand new military-styled uniforms. The girls wore white hair bows, blue dresses, and crisply starched white pinafores. There are no longer uniforms in Russian schools, but many of the the beginning students still dress up.
We note celebrations in the 1970s. We note one portrait that looks like a first grade first day class portrait. The flowers strongly suggest a first say celebration. The portrait is not dated, but looks like the early-70s to us. The girls in the class wear white dresses rather than dark dresses and white pinafores, but with the same white hair bows that were so common. The boys all wear short pants. All the children have white hosiery, both white knee socks and white tights. Footwear varied, but we see many of the children wearing sandals or srap shoes.
Here we see a First Day celebration about 1980 (figure 1). Note the hairbows, pinafores, dark dresses, knee socks, and strap shoes. These outfirs were not just for little girls. Until Communism began to fall, this is how highschool girls dressed as well.
The e traveler reported in on September 1, 2000, 'Children!' they were children. Literally hundreds, and carrying bundles of flowers. Little girls dressed in black dresses and white tights, white frilly decorations rising 30cm from their heads, plaits shiny and neat. Boys no higher than my hips in ties and bow ties, hair wet, slicked back so that their fresh young scalps were visible. Hair even cut." In Soviet days the boys would have been wearing brand new military-styled uniforms. The girls wore white hair bows, blue dresses, and crisply starched white pinafores. There are no longer uniforms in Russian schools, but many of the the beginning students still dress up.
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