Figure 1.--Here we see a Soviet class with the boys wearing tunics and the gurls dresses with npoinafores. The dear suggestd it was tken in the 9690s, it looks more like the 50s to us. Tunics were based on Red army uniforms.

The tunic was a major school garment during the 19th century, espcially the first half of the 19th century. As far as we can tell, tunics were not usually done as uniforms, at least in modern times with a few exception. They were a kind of uniform in some grammar schools which can be seen in the uniforms at some of the British hospital school. They appear to have been a widely worn garment to school, especially for younger boy. The early-19th century was also before photograpy was invented. And even in the mid-19th cntury as photography was expanding, we have relatively few school images. Tunics were worn throughout the 19th and into the early-20th century. But even as even after photography became more common, we do not see many in schools during the late-19th century. Here we see a younger German boy wearing a tunic to school about 1892 (figure 1), but this was not very common. Tunics had a fashion comback in the early-20th century especilly in America. Even so, they were not commonly woirn to school. An outlier here is Russia/Soviet Union. The tunic was a standard peasant garment. This was very different than the tunics worn in the west which were more of a fashionable dress for middle-class children. Many peasant boys wore tunics to school. We even see a few secoindary chools in the cities with a tunic uniform, probbly because it was the Russian Army iniform. After the Revolution, the tunic was discouraged--except it became the Red Amy uniform. This meantthat we no longer see tunics commonly at school. This changed for a time after World War II, presumably because of the prestige of the Red Army.

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