Figure 1.--This CDV portrait shows a Berlin boy photographed by A Jandorf. His name was Herrmann, but we do not know his last name. He was 7 years old when the portrait was taken. He is holding a tennis racket. The portrait is not dated, but looks like it was probably taken in the late-1890s. He wears a flat cap, blouse rather like a jacket, short tie, knickers, and strap shoes.

We know that some Germany boys wore patterened long stockings, but we are not yet sure anout the precise chronology. We have very few images of German boys wearing patterened long stockings in the 19th century, but that probably reflects our reltively limited archive. Even so, our axcghive is substantial enough that we can see thst patterened long stockings were not as common a plain colored stockings. We have no information at this time on the mid-19th century. We assume that boys wore stripped stockings in the late-19th century (1870s abnd 80s), but have not found many German images to confirm this. These were fairly common in many other countris. Striped stockings seem the most common, but we notice some other patterns as well. We are not sure about the 1860s, but we know that stripped stockings were quite common in the 1870s. A good example is Hermann and Otto, two boys from Bremen in 1873 on the previous page. We also mote examples from the 1880s. We are less sure aboutg the 1890s.