Fogure 1.--Here we see a group of German children. we think in a park during the 1930s. Notice all the children are wearing strap shoes and sandals. Only the girls wea, hiwever r white strap shoes. And only the girls wear white socks. Given the ages involved, they seem to be siblings from the samefamily. The children look to be about 5-14 year of age.

We have found images of most of these aspects in the photographic record, except of course color. Here we do not find maby examples efoe the 1970s. Here the black and white photography of the day makrs it very difficult to assess color. The one exception is white which can be identified in the blaxk and white photography. White and to a lesser rxtent black or the two colors that can be idntified in thd black-and-white photograpohic record of the 19th and early- and mid-20th century. White is fairly easy to identify. Black is a little more difficult. Unfortunately we know nothing about color. It sinmply can not ve derived from the photographic record. White we can identify, and whilr tounger boys might wear white footwear, it was primarily a color worn by girls. We can see thids very clearly in the pohotographic record. There was, however some variation over time., especially in the early-20th century. White was mostly ued for strap shoes, bith regular strap shoes and sandals.

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