Figure 1.-- Here we see Yehudi, with his friend Persinger who had by now become his accompanist. The photograph was taken in 1929. Yehudi was 12-13 yers old. Yehudi had just returned from Europe for his first American tour. His clothes in the photo are interesting. Note that he is wearing informal street clothes since he is only in a studio with Persinger. He wears what looks to me like a white sweater with a hood, black short pants, and black long stockings with hightop shoes. This outfit is a bit unusual for the United States n 1929, especially the black long stockings (most American boys would have worn knickers or at least beige stockings). But Yehudi had been spending a lot of time in Germany just before this photograph and his clothes reflect what a German 13-year-old might well be wearing. He looks here very much like a German gymnasium pupil.

Casual photographs show him at about 6 or 7 years of age dancing with his sisters. He wears short pants and long dark stockings. As an older boy about 13 years of age he still wears wears short pants with both long stockings and kneesocks. Most of the photographs we have found are informal. I'm not sure what he wore for his concerts. One source says that he wore short psnts velvel suits with long stockings. Perhaps because of his immigrant parents, he seems to have been dressed more as a Eurpoean than an American boy. We do not see him, for example wearing knickers. A factor here is tha he spent a good bit of time giving concerts in Germany and other European countries. Here we see him after he had returned to America (figure 1).

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