Figure 1.--Here we see a German boy and his adoring sister in the 1950s. He wears suspenders with simple clips on to hold up his short pants rather than a belt.

We still see Germany boys wearing suspenders in the 1950s. We do not yet have, however, much information on German suspenders. We also note boys wearing suspender shorts. The actual suspenders are much less common than we have noted in previous years. We do note, however, quite a number of German boys in the 1950s wearing them. As best we can tell, it was mostly younger boys wearing them. We note simple clip attachments for the waistline rather than buttons or forked attachments. An example of an older boy is a German boy in a Kinderheim with short pants and rather loud elastic suspenders. Note two other boys at this Kinderheim wear Lederhosen halters. We see many boys wearing these halters. They were not always attached to Lederhosen. These halters fulfill the same basic function as suspenders and seem more popular with omee boys. There was a regionl factor here as they were more popular in Bavaria and the rest of southern Germany.