Figure 1.--This snapshot was taken of a German boy in 1928 with his German shepard. He is unidentified, but looks to be about 6 years old. He wears what looks like his casual clothing. Note the short cropped, almost shaved, hair cut and very long shorts. |
Many German boy still had very short even cropped hair cuts in the 1920s. The severe cropped haircuts were not as pervasive as before World War I, but were still relatively common, especially for younger boys. Older boys after entering school or a few years of school increasingly had hair cuts that left enough hair that could be combed. Here social class seems to have been a factor. Boys from more affluent families were less likely to have cropped hair. For example, compare the boy here (figure 1) with the Hender brothers from a more affluent family. There were also regional factors in Germany affecting hair styles. I believed the crop hair was more common in Prussia than other areas of Germany.
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