Figure 1.-- Thids is a class at the Hinwil School in Zurich canton (February 1, 1955). The girls and boys here look about 11 or 12 years old. Most of the boys wear baggy knickers, but three boys in the lower right hand corner wear long stockings. Two of the boys are obviously brothers, and they look to me like identical twins. Notice that they are dressed identically in the same color of shorts, with identical pullover sweaters and tan or grey long stockings, pretty clearly heavy woolen stockings obviously worn with a Strapsleibchen for supporters.
Here you can search through our archive of Swiss schools alphabetically. Here you can easily check on a specific school. Many schools did not have names, but took on the name of the neigborhood or village where they were located. Some city schools took the names of the street where they were located. We have several schools archived, but of course is only a small fraction of Swiss schools. We incourage readers to contrinute any information they can recall about their schools. Here photographs are wonderful, but not absolutely required. These individual school pages help expand our coverage and understanding both about the academic program as well as school fashions in the many different schools around the country. Raders who find their schools in our archive are incouraged to add information about the school. Some information is available on individual Swiss schools, showing both the various styles worn by the boys and available information on the school regulations. The information is abstracted from the available images, but some information is available on the several different schools. We have archived schools from both the French- and German-speaking catons. It is likely that boys in the Italian catons also wore smocks, but HBC at this time does not have any information on these schools.
