Figure 1.--This portrait of Mrs. J. Kastner's children was taken during March, 1929, in Montreal. There are two siblings--a boy and his sister who seem to be about 7 or 8 years old. The girl wears an interesting print dress with a bodice front and lacings. The boy wears a white shirt and striped tie, a patterned pullover sweater, woolen knitted shorts and tan long stockings with hose supporters.

This portrait of Mrs. J. Kastner's children was taken during March, 1929, in Montreal. There are two siblings--a boy and his sister who seem to be about 7 or 8 years old. The girl wears an interesting print dress with a bodice front and lacings. The boy wears a white shirt and striped tie, a patterned pullover sweater, woolen knitted shorts and tan long stockings with hose supporters. The tan long stockings seem to be worn both for formality and for warmth. These are dress-up clothes, since the photograph was taken at a professional photographic studio. We don't know the Christian names of the children. A reader writes, "Kastner also sounds like an Anglophone name, I think, rather than French. In the 1920s the Anglophone families of Montreal were perhaps more prominent socially and more affluent--the sort that would have had professional photographers take pictures of their children." I can't say I know about the ethnicity of Kastner. I do agree with our readers basic point that Anglophone families in Montreal were socially pominent at the time.

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