Figure 1.-- This photo was taken in Ragusa, a little town in inland Sicily. It show the Marino family in 1947. The girls are wearing white dresses, socks and footwear. The boy, aged 12, wears a suit with short pants. He is wearing open-toe sandals with white ankle-socks. At the time that was a good formal clothing for a boy belonging to a middle or low-middle class family.

This photo was taken in Ragusa, a little town in inland Sicily. It show the Marino family in 1947. The girls are wearing white dresses, socks and footwear. The boy, aged 12, wears a suit with short pants. He is wearing open-toe sandals with white ankle-socks. At the time that was a good formal clothing for a boy belonging to a middle or low-middle class family. Today the conventions are changed. short pants suits are unusual and only for younger children. A boy aged 12 wears often short pants in summer, but only with casual clothing. Usually white socks are seen as inappropriate for boys. Many people think that sandals, especially open-toe sandals, must bee worn always without socks, so usually sandals are not worn with a suit.

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