Table of contents:
- Jewelry as a symbol of social inequality
- Long hair as an imitation of the wild West
- Short skirts and Komsomol organizers with a ruler at the school entrance
- Jeans: yeah, your dad is a sailor, and your mom is in trade
- Suitcases-diplomats and their competition with satchels
Video: What was forbidden to schoolchildren in the USSR, and how they were punished for jeans or short skirts
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
School years are not repeated. Someone remembers them with fondness, someone with irritation, someone just doesn't care. Time flies quickly, and just recently you listened to the last bell ringing, and today you are already taking your granddaughter to first grade. There are no more familiar exams, now they are taking the exam, and schoolchildren have become more relaxed and freedom-loving. And in the days of the USSR, everything was much stricter. Perhaps today such rules may seem too harsh, but Soviet schoolchildren perceived them without much surprise.
Jewelry as a symbol of social inequality
It was not customary to wear jewelry in schools. Earrings, rings, chains - these signs of a beautiful life were forbidden to be shown to others. It happened that the teacher allowed to leave the earrings. But there had to be a good reason for that. It appeared among schoolgirls in the late 70s and early 80s, when they started talking about acupuncture. It was believed that a correctly punctured lobe protects from loss of vision. Most often, they asked to bring a letter from the parents confirming that the ears were pierced with their knowledge and a certificate from the ophthalmologist. And one more condition: earrings must have been made of gold or silver. Then they could be considered medicinal.
When the times of perestroika came, the rules began to soften. The girls gradually began to put on both rings and earrings. Of course, preference was given to thin rings on the fingers and earrings in the form of small "studs". Wearing earrings a la gypsy Aza would hardly be allowed even to the most democratic school.
Long hair as an imitation of the wild West
No matter how beautiful the girl's long hair was, she still had to style it on her head or braid it. It was considered unacceptable to come to school with your hair down. Especially strict to this began to be treated in the 70-80s, when, after the girls, the baton of "long-haired" was taken over by young men. Almost every reader of this school generation probably remembers how the main bully of the class, who not only behaved inappropriately, but also wore "patla," was escorted from the lesson to the hairdresser's by the teacher.
And all because long hair is a pernicious influence of the West! Some Chris Norman or a member of the AC / DC group, how could you look up to them? This was considered unworthy of a pioneer and a Komsomol member. If the offender was stubborn, he could be expelled from school. Of course, having previously invited the parents a couple of times and summoning the pioneer squad or the Komsomol committee to a meeting.
Short skirts and Komsomol organizers with a ruler at the school entrance
Girls have always wanted to be beautiful, no matter that there is a period of stagnation in the yard. Therefore, they took regular scissors and, without regret, shredded their brown school uniforms, making the skirt as short as possible. Mini! How much this word was for an eighth-grader. But this was also discouraged. Teachers made comments, even wrote notes to parents and called those to school. Since the girl had to study, and not flirt in front of the boys, showing her knees.
It also happened that the Komsomol organizers were given strict instructions: not to let girls in too short skirts go to school! And the Komsomol guards stood at the entrance with a ruler, measuring the distance between the hem of the hem and the knees. According to the unspoken standard, the value could not be more than 10 centimeters. You will not be spoiled. And if less, go home and change. Well, or lengthen the hem. By the way, some high school girls were more cunning - they did not cut the dress, but simply tucked up the hem and sewed it by hand. If necessary, you could simply pull out the thread and everything is back to normal.
Jeans: yeah, your dad is a sailor, and your mom is in trade
Almost all schoolchildren dreamed of jeans in times of total shortage. But not everyone got them. By the way, here we can agree that these usual blue cotton trousers were a symbol of social inequality. Because it was difficult to get a miracle out of denim. It is either to buy from farmers, which is very expensive, or to ask someone to bring it from abroad. And there were mostly either sailors who went abroad, or diplomatic workers, or high-level trade officials. And they all had their own children who dreamed of jeans.
Therefore, most likely, in order not to aggravate relations in the classroom, it was forbidden to come to school in jeans. Otherwise - a comment in the diary or even just a denial to class. And really, why jeans, if there was a school uniform? In fact, there was nothing wrong with her. But children who spent a lot of time at school, of course, wanted variety. And boast, where without it.
Suitcases-diplomats and their competition with satchels
When diplomats appeared on sale, a special fashion arose among schoolchildren: to wear textbooks and notebooks in them. It is clear that we are not talking about employees of the diplomatic corps, but about the suitcases that received such a name. They were begged from their parents, they saved money for them, they were taken care of. True, sometimes we rode them down the hill, but that doesn't matter. Then the diplomats made them strong.
Such bags were believed to harm posture. After all, sometimes children had to carry a lot of everything with them: for example, 6 lessons, and these are 6 textbooks, 6 notebooks, a pencil case, some additional accessories. The weight was gaining a lot. Accordingly, the skew to one side and the resulting curvature of the spine. And this is absolutely correct! The satchel is much more useful and comfortable. Another question is that under the USSR these school bags were made not very attractive outwardly, and they were suitable for first-graders, and not for maturing high school students.
And so today Pupils of the most expensive Swiss boarding schools live and study.
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