Figure 1.--This gingham front buttoning smock in blue was for younger boys 3-7 years. Note yellow bunny detailong. The smock had an attached white collar with pointed collar points like a regular shirt. |
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Several Italian companies offer a range of different smocks in a variety of sizes and colors. An assessment of these offerings provide insights into smock trends at Italian schools.
Siggi is a a garment manufacturee near Vicenza. The company is reportedly the largest manufacturer of school smocks in the country. One press report indicated in 2008, " ... 2009 offers the promise of unprecedented growth. Siggi is the biggest producer of grembiuli, or school smocks. Once universal in Italian primary schools, they were becoming as outdated as ink-wells. But in July the education minister, Mariastella Gelmini, backed the reintroduction of grembiuli to combat brand- and class-consciousness among schoolchildren. Siggi’s output this year has almost sold out and its chairman, Gino Marta, says that “next year could see an out-and-out boom.” [Itlian education]
"Italian education: Schools out," Economist.com (October 16, 2008).
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