Figure 1.--This idealized family was posed for a portrait in the 1920s. We are not sure how representative the clothing is to that actually worn by French children. |
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The postcard here is an unidentified French family during the 1920s. Children were very commonly photographed for French postcards. It was less common o photograph the entire family. The portrait look idealized as it wa used for a published postcard. It is a posed scene, but was probably an actual family. They probably dressed up for the photograph. A French reader tells us that the clothes were probably what the family wore. Post card studios did not have large budgets for costuming their subjects. We are not sure how common such outfits were, especially the starp shoes. The hair styles are quite carefully done. We suspect that they are more elaborately done than was common for the family. There are four children. The oldest two look to be a boy and girl.
The postcard here is an unidentified French family during the 1920s. Children were very commonly photographed for French postcards. It was less common o photograph the entire family. The portrait look idealized as it wa used for a published postcard. It is a posed scene, but was probably an actual family. They probably dressed up for the photograph. A French reader tells us that the clothes were probably what the family wore. Post card studios did not have large budgets for costuming their subjects.
The card here is undated. It looks to us as if it was made in the 1920s, probably the kate 1920s.
We are not sure how common such outfits were, especially the starp shoes. The hair styles are quite carefully done. We suspect that they are more elaborately done than was common for the family. There are four children. The oldest two look to be a boy and girl. A Fremch reader tells us, "This postcard is showing a modern french familly , they are dressed clean , but not specialy in Sunday clothes. It is a good example of a prosperous French family following World War I."
This family has four children. The child at the right is a boy. At the left are two girls. The gender of the baby is unknown.
The older boy has got a sort of choupette hair style. His outfit is difficult to classify. He looks to be a weating a kind of tunic or smock rather than a blouse or shirt. It is too long to be a blouse which was always worn tucked neatly inside the pants. His pants look to be in romper or bloomer style. Strap shoes were very common at this time for both
boys and girls. These sort of shoes had take place of the high shoes which were expensive and not easy for the younger children to slip on. The clothes also reflect the French mother's penchant for juvenile styles following World War I.
The girl's hairstyle was typical for the time. Her dress was quite short and the cut of the sleeves was also very common in the 1920s. The girl wrears the same strap shoes and white kneesocks as her little brother.
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