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We know much more about the 20th century. Private schools did require uniforms, but we know of no private schools that required older boys to wear smocks. We have a substantial archive of British school images so we believe smocks would show up if they were very common. We have found a few examples such as the boy here, we think in the 1910s (figure 1). WEe are not sure if he is wearing a smock or a tunic which were worn to some extent, mostly by the privildged classes. We do not see boys wearing either smocks or tunics to school to any extent in the 20th century. Smocks and tunics are often diffucult to diferenuate. (The primary difference is wether normal street clothes are worn underneath.) Smocks may have been worn at some pre-prep prep schools. This varied somewhat, but most prep schools begin taking boys at about age 8 years. Or they may have been worn in some state pre-schools. As far as we can tell, however, this was not very common, but we do see a few examples. We note one school, we think in the 1950s. Actually we have found several images, but many seen tio have beeb taken at the same school, which comoicated ant effort to assess prevalence.m mThey may have just been used at school, primarily for the younger boys or even for older boys when engage in messy activities like art. We see a good example from the 1960s on the previous page.
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