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Tom wears a light grey summer-weight waist union suit made of nainsook material. The waist union suit was both underwear and a support garment for outer clothes. The garment has loosely fitting open legs. The extra buttons on the shoulder straps allow for Tom's growth and also make it easier to put the underwear on. The union suit buttoning was a little different for the younger children. Notice also the buttons under each arm that allow him to step into the suit more easily. Like all waist union suits, this underwear serves also as an underwaist. With a regular union suit, children might have to wear extra support garments like an underwaist. The waist union suit combined the two functions of underwear and underwaist. Readers may want to look at a drawing of Tom's waist union suit. These garments were very common in the early 20th century for younger children, but of course do not show up in the photographic record because they are underwear.
It has reinforcement taping over the shoulders to support the weight of Tom's button-on outer clothing plus garter tabs with two metal eyelets for attaching hose supporters. Long stockings were very common for children in the 1910s. A boy Tom's age might wear three-qurter socks, usually white. We picture tom wearing three-quarter socks most of the time during the summer months. This was most common during the summer. Boys also commonly wore long stockings. Black long stockings were especially common, but little boys like Tom might wear white long stockings. Waist union suits could help hold up his stockings.
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