Figure 1.--This colorized portrait shows two school-age brothers in the 1930s dressed alike. We are unsure just to what extent schools were responsible for the cropped hair here. Both have cropped hair. |
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This colorized portrait shows two school-age brothers in the 1930s dressed alike. Both boys have cropped hair. We are unsure just to what extent schools were responsible for the cropped hair here. We see so many school-age boys with these hair cuts that we suspect that the schools had regulations on hair.
We see many city boys like these wearing Western clothes in the 1930s. Plain shirts and short pants were common. Knee socks and leather shoes were not as common. A reader writes, "It appears that the boy on the right has his garters visible while the one
on the left has it roled down so it is hard to tell. Funny that the older one would be less well dressed. I wonder if that is because the mother dresses one and the other has to dress himself." That could be the case. We also note that knee socks did not become common in Japan until after World War II. It could be that the boys here were not used to wearing kneesocks.
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