Figure 1.--This Dutch boy about 1950 wears white kneesocks. Notice the girl behind him wearing a folk dress. Girls were more likely to werar folk dress than boys.
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Figure 1.--This Dutch boy about 1950 wears white kneesocks. Notice the girl behind him wearing a folk dress. Girls were more likely to werar folk dress than boys. |
Boys after the turn of the century began wearing short pamts with kneesocks. Patterned kneesocks were common in the Netherlands, in contrast to England where boys mostly wore grey, solid-colored kneesocks. Boys also wore solid colored kneesocks, mostly colors like tan or grey. One of the most popular colors were white. White kneesocks were considered somewhat dressier than the olther colors. Kneesocks were worn with both short pants and kneesocks. Some boys even wore knitted kneesocks.
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