Individual Scottish Schools: Unidentified Private School (1920s)
Figure 1.-- Here we see an unidentifed private Scottish school. We are not at all sure how to date this portrait. We think it was taken in the 1920s, but the late-10s is a possibility. It is clearly a private schools as the boys are so well dressed. Te boys all wear Eton collars and three-piece suitts. Most of the boys wear knicker pants and knee socks. A few boys wear kilts which is how we know it is a Scottish school. This seems to be entirely optional. we think that they are the only two boys wearing kilts as yhe jackets for the kilts are different than standard suit jackets and only the two boys at the front wear kilt jackets. The boys look to be about 13 years old.
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Here we see an unidentifed private Scottish school. We are not at all sure how to date this portrait. We think it was taken in the 1920s, but the late-10s is a possibility. It is clearly a private schools as the boys are so well dressed. Te boys all wear Eton collars and three-piece suitts. Most of the boys wear knicker pants and knee socks. A few boys wear kilts which is how we know it is a Scottish school. This seems to be entirely optional. we think that they are the only two boys wearing kilts as yhe jackets for the kilts are different than standard suit jackets and only the two boys at the front wear kilt jackets. The boys look to be about 13 years old. This means that they may be the final year in a prep school oe the first year in a public chool. The school in the background looks like the typical private schoool stone work ar a Scottish school. The Eton collars and knickers seem to us more typical of the 1910s. But the portrait is not a cabinet vard, but a more modern looking photographic print with a white border. That seems to us more like the 1920s/ Perhapas Scottish readers will have some insights here.
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