Figure 1.-- Here we see a charming family portrai of a mother with her three sons. It was taken in Maione (south-western Italy) probably in the early 1960s. Notice hom mother is holding on tgo the boys with her hands. That tell you a great deal anout the relationship. We note some differences in the clothing of the boys. The elder one is wearing a long trousers suit. A few years earlier in the 1950s, he probably would have been wearing a short pants suit. To wear long trousers was a sort of rite of passage at the time. Both the younger brothers wear short pants with shirts and sandals. The older of them is wearing sandals with socks, that looked more formal at the time. This convention has changed in Italy. Although you can still see some little child wearing sandals with socks, the convention is that open-toe sandals must be worn with bare feet both for casual and formal clothing.

Here we see a charming family portrai of a mother with her three sons. It was taken in Maione (south-western Italy) probably in the early 1960s. Notice hom mother is holding on tgo the boys with her hands. That tell you a great deal anout the relationship. We note some differences in the clothing of the boys. The elder one is wearing a long trousers suit. A few years earlier in the 1950s, he probably would have been wearing a short pants suit. To wear long trousers was a sort of rite of passage at the time. Both the younger brothers wear short pants with shirts and sandals. The older of them is wearing sandals with socks, that looked more formal at the time. This convention has changed in Italy. Although you can still see some little child wearing sandals with socks, the convention is that open-toe sandals must be worn with bare feet both for casual and formal clothing.

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