Figure 1.--Both elementary and secondary school students wore blue smocks of basically the same design. This boy in the 1970s appears to have some kind of red or orange badge on his smock. Under the smock he is wearing a shirt that would more resemble a pajama top in the U.S., rather than a shirt to wear with school. Obviously, in Hungary the print variety that a boy would wear is different than in the United States.

Boys in both primary (elementary) and secondary schools appear to have worn smocks. A HBC reader reports that even the older boys in grammar schools (secondary schools) had to wear them. The younger boys appear to have accepted the smocks without much complaint. They were not, however, very popular with the older boys who would commonly wear their smocks unbuttoned. Many schools allowed this, but it appears to have been more common at secondary than primary schools. I do not know for sure, but there does not appear to have been any difference in the smocks worn by younger and older boys. HBC notices, however, that some younger children in the late 1990s began to wear sleevess apron or gardner style smocks. HBC has noted a few older boys wearing short-sleeved smocks, but not the apron-style smock.m While the smocks worn by the boys appear quite common, regardless of age, the boys did differe in the clothes they wore with smocks. Many Hungarian primary school boys still wore short pants in the 1960s, perhaps even some younger secondary school boys. By the 1970s, primary school boys were increasingly wearing long pants to school like secondary school boys.

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