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We see German boys wearing a wide variety of hosiery in the 1950s. The decade was in many ways a transition period for both hosiery as well as other garments. The knee socks and long stockings common before World War II were still being wirn, especially in the warly 1950s. We still see boys, especially younger German boys wearing long stockings in the learly 50s, but less so by the late-50s in West Germany. Children in East Germany continued wearing long stockjings into the 1960s. It is at this time that tights appear in West Germany. We note boys increasingly wearing ankle socks which would become the prinmcipal hosiery in the 1960s. A factor here is that we see more boys wearing long pants, especially by the late-1950s. Thus the long stockings and knee socks were not as needed for warmth as when the boys wore short pants. Tights appeared in West Germany during the very-late 1950s. They did not beconme an important type of hosiery until the 1960s.
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