Figure 1.--The Knabenchor Marianum Fulda Choir is seen here in 1978 wearing their uniform of white white shirts, dark ties, dark vests, dark short pants, and white kneesocks.

The choir uniform has changed over the years. Many of the changes were minor. The current uniform is quite different than the early uniform worn by the choir. The boys wore white shirts and dark blue short pants with white kneesocks. A vest was added in 1973. The major change in the costume was made in 1988 hen the choir switched o red jackets and long blak pants.

The 1960s

The original choir uniform was white shirts worn with different kinds of ties, blue short pants and white kneesocks. All of the boyswear standard black or dark colored ties. We are not sure what the inspiration for this uniform was. Several German choirs had costumes of white shirts, black or blue short pants, and white kneesocks. Or perhaps this was the basic school uniform at the time for the younger boys. We have noted some variation in the photographs during the early years of the choir. The boys mostly wear a standard uniform. There are, however some minor variation in the boys' costumes. Some boys wear annkle socks rather than kneesocks. Others boys wear a variety of neckwear including bow ties and little cross ties rather than standard neckties. We are not sure if thee variatins were only in practices or were allowed in actual performances.

The 1970s

The choristers in the early 1970s appear to have worn the same basic uniform worn when the choir was founded in 1966. The ties appear to be more standardized. They wear very narrow ties which look more like the ties worn in the 1960s than the 1970s. Photographs of the boys performing in 1970s sometimes show boys performing in both white kneesocks and white ankle socks. The socks chose appear to have been an option for the boys. Quite a few of the boys appear to have chosn ankle socks rather than kneesocks. The shorts appear to be a darker blue.

The 1980s

For most of the 1980s, the chroisters boy sang in white shirts, black vests and short pants, and white kneesocks. This was he uniform first adopted in 1973. The uniform appears to have been use unchanged for the next few years, through most of the 1980s. We do not note any changes over this period. The last year that the boys appeared in this costum was 1988. The choir then adopted a new uniform with a red jackt and black long pants.

The 1990s

The Choir in 1988 switched to a new uniform consisting of a short red jacket and black long trousers. The boys do not wear blazers as worn by many choirs in Americand Britain, but rather a kind of short red jacket. This is the costume in which the Choir performs in today. Like blazers the boys wear their on their jackets. Th crest has a yellow background. This was the same crest that the boys used to wear on their vests with the old choir uniform.