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Here we see Japanese children wearing overcoats. Notice styled just like Western overcoats, but more like the ones adults wore. Many Japanese children, boys and girls, wore long stockings in the colder months, by the 1960s they had changed to tights. Based on how mother iscdressed, she is a well-to-do fashionable lady which is how she has dressed the children, although given the ages, they can not all be her children. The ohotograoh was probably in the late-1960s.
A reader writes, "Interesting picture here. It appears that the two boys have one in beige (I think) knee socks with tie shoes and his cap worn backwards a white shirt and I suspect a front buttoning smock. The middle boy is wearing a similar smock with black tights and dark Eton style peak cap and the girl is wearing her roller, white stockings and smock with her initials on her smock and white tights with t strap shoes. . (of course, you may be correct that they are lightweight over coats or raincoats but I am uncertain). I think the person with them is some sort of chaperone but that is a guess."
Thanks for the comments which we always find helpful in bringing out details and a fuller understanding of the period fashion trnds. he portrait is unclear, but it does look like the oine boy is wearing his cap backwards. At least we do not see a bill. We don't think, hiwever, that the very fashionable mother here would permit the boy to wear his cap backwards, especially in the 1960s. Although it certainly looks like he is. We have archived hundreds of Japanese images and we have yet to notice Japanese boys at the time wearing baseball caps backwards, including more rebelious teenagers. Smocks were not common in Japan. We see a few at home or at school, but not childen wearing them for outings And again I don't think that mother would dress the kids in smocks for an outing. Also look at the collar/lapel . That us exactly how overcoats were done, but not like smocks except lab coat smocks. (Which wee have not noted in the 60s. And again we don't think that very fashionable mother would not have chosen to bring the kids oit in a lab coat smock. The identity of the woman is an open question. She may be a chaperone, but chaprrones are not usyally so fashionably dressed. But the children can not be all hers. So her identity isuncertain.
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