Figure 1.--This Austrian boy wears a short pull-over smock. The photogrph was undated, but may have been takn after World War II.

HBC has no information on Austrian smocks. Austria was not a country that we have generally associated with smocks. We had assumed that they were no commonly worn there, but in fact hav no actual information. One HBC reader has submitted a photograph of an Austrian boy wearing a rather short smock. Note the partial front buttoning which looks like a Rugby-style pullover shirt. It looks to have been taken some time after World War II, but the photograph is undated so we can't be sure. Nor do we know how typical this was of the smocks worn by Austrian boys. A French reader lived in Austria for a few years as a boy. He reports, "I lived in the Niderösterreich region of Austria in the early 1950s. Boys there after World War II did not commonly wear smocks. I think that they were more common before the War. Some schoolboys did wear a kind of smock to school. It was a rathervshort smock, almost like a shirt, but it was not tucked into the pants. There were both front and back buttoning styles. The kids called it 'Schüler Kittel'. I myelf almost never wore the Kittel."

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