Figure 1.--Here we see a brother and sister reading together. The boy has knee socks and the girl long stockings. We see other photographs with children thisd age where the girl is wearing socks (probably knee socks) and the girl long stockings. The snapshot looks to have been taken in the 1930s.

We see both German boys and girls wearing the same types of hosiery. This includes ankles, three-quarter, and knee socks as well as long stockings and tights. We also see both boys and girls going barefoot. There may have been varying relative popularity over time, but if so those trends are only reltive and difficult to immediately sketch out in the histotical record. We see to detect, for example older girls wearing lng stockings than boys. Color seems to have been the major difference. This is a little difficult to sketch out because of the black and white photography of the day. What we have noted is that white seems to have been more popular for girls than boys. This seems especially the case of white long stockings. Again we are talking about relative popularity as we note many boys wearing white socks of varrious types.

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