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This is the Schlieren School, in Schlieren, Switzlerland (Zurich Canton), taken on November 11, 1949. The teacher is Herr Ernst Boller. The children are about 11- or 12-years old--probably the last year of primary school. Note the almost universal use of pinafores for the girls (with a few without), and the pigtails on some. The boys seem mostly dressed in the baggy knickers and knee socks that were popular. In the first row you can see argyle knee socks, one of which has slipped down because of the lack of elastic in the top. One boy in the front row has the strap of his knickers unbuttoned so that you can see how these trousers fastened around the leg. The strap has a button on it so that the closure around the leg just below the knee was by button in this case rather than by an adjustable buckle, which was sometimes the case. One boy wears short trousers with knee socks, while another wears shorts with woolen long stockings One boy standing in the third row wears a jacket with a sweater underneath. None of the boys wears a tie, but the tieless shirts seem in all cases to be buttoned up to the neck.
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