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This is a class of 10-year olds from Mönchaltorf School in Monchaltorf, Switzerland, a village ner Zurich in the Zurich canton. The class portrait was taken on May 5, 1949 [Charles, was this 1959?] in the early spring. The teacher was Herr Muggli. The girls most all wear dresses, most with pinafores. The boys, at least the ones in front, mostly wear short trousers with knee socks since the weather was beginning to turn somewhat warmer. But notice that one boy, third from the right in the first row, continues to wear his winter long stockings with supporters. (You can see the garter clasp on his left leg). Since the stockings are very long and very smoothly and tautly gartered, he is undoubtely wearing a "stocking shirt" or Strapsleibchen with four elastic supporters with metal clips. The stockings are cotton, not woolen, and relatively light weight. The color seems to be light tan. The black stockings of earlier years had almost disappeared by the late-40s except for very formal occasions such as confirmations and first communions. Most of the children wear sweaters. We see no suspenders in this class, which is perhaps a bit unusual, since we see many boys wearing suspenders with short trousers during the 30s and earlier 40s. Notice the short sleeves in some cases. One of the boys towards the back on the left wears a sleeveless sweater with a white shirt the sleeves of which have been rolled up. Notice the footwear as well. The boy with the light tan long stockings wears sandals. The hightop shoes that were common during the 1920s and early 30s have given way by 1949 to low cut and much lighter-weight shoes. Some of the girls still wear pigtails but not as many as was common about a decade earlier. Many of the boys have short haircuts.
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