Figure 1.--This Belgian boy was photographed in 1913. He wears either lobg three-quarter sicks or kneesocks. Notice thatey are cuffed. Usually three-quarter sicks were not cuffed.
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Figure 1.--This Belgian boy was photographed in 1913. He wears either lobg three-quarter sicks or kneesocks. Notice thatey are cuffed. Usually three-quarter sicks were not cuffed. |
Some early kneesocks are difficult to differentiate from long three-qaurter socks. I'm not sure how contemporaty sources would have described this boy's socks. We begin to note kneesocks in Belgium after the turn of the century, especially the 1910s. Kneesocks were commonly worn by Belgian boys, especially after World War I. They generally replace long stockings during the 1920s, although some younger boys continued to wear them for warmth during the winter. We see mostly dark kneesocks in the early 20th century, but we note boys wearing white kneesocks by the late 1920s. They continued to be worn after World War II, but began to decline in popularity during the 1950s. Boys in some private Catholic schools wore white kneesocks although I don't think that was common outside of school.
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