Figure 1.--School portraits are some of the best informatioin about popular fashion in Germany. This 1959 portrait shows two boys in a primatry class wearing Lederhosen. Both have akltasrs. One of the boys wears a Bavarian jacket. At some schools virtually all the boys wore Lederhosen. This varied regiinally and chronologcally. The children look to be about 9 years old.

HBC knows of no school that adopted lederhosen as aschool uniform. But few German and Austrian schools had uniforms. They were widely worn to school as ordinary dress by boys in Austria and Germany. It looks like a uniform becuase so many boys wore them. BC see quite a number of schools were many of the childrens, in some cases vitrtually all of the boys in primary schools are wearing Lederhosen. These schools had not established a uniforn=m which is usually the case when items are so so common. It is just that Lederhosen were so common for boys wear in some regions. We see boys wearing Lederhosen to school in the inter-war era, but they become much more common after World War II, especially by the 1950s. German and Austrian schools did not have uniforms. They were widely worn to school as ordinary dress by boys in Austria and Germany. A German reader tells us, "In southern Germany (and Austria) during the 1950s and 1960s Lederhosen were often a kind of standard-dress for boys. This depended on the region as well as social background. They were very common schoolwear as well as scouting. I will send you some sample school portraits. At quite a number of schools in the 1950s nearly all of the boys are wearing a Lederhose, sometimes even the teachers. Scool portraits are of course the best indicator of popularity anbd prevakence. In the 1950s all Lederhosen are of rindkernvelours and with buttoned fall front. By the 1960s, the Glattleder and double-zipper-front meanwhile has become more popular."

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