school uniforms and smocks

There is a fascinating website called Historic Boys Clothing and has extensive information about the wearing of smocks. The fashion died out, like a lot of traditional juvenile clothes in the 1960's, with the advent of more liberal attidudes. It must have been terrible for boys with old fashioned parents who forced their sons to wear smocks over short trousers into their teens. They must have looked like little girls.

Indeed, the "Historical Boys' Clothing" website is the best to research period clothing, uniforms, costumes, etc., re boys. But to access most of the extensive info & pictures they have, you must now become a member, which is worth the small cost...

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