Figure 1.--Here we see two vrothers, apparently in 1934. We don't know where, unfortunately. The boys seem to be about 6 and 3 (or 4) years old. They are holding their toy cars and trucks. The boys seem to be quite dressed up for their photo, which seems to be a studio portrait. The older lad wears a dress white shirt and tie with pleated short pants with a somewhat unusual wide self-belt. It is probably a button-on outfit. He wears tan long stockings with supporters and high top shoes. His younger brother wears a button-on suit with very large white buttons.

We have archieved quite few boys from the inter-War era on HBC. We have not yet made the links, but this is one of many projects we are planning. This will provide a wealth of information about period clothes. But it will take some time to make all the appropriate links.

Unidentified Brothers (1934)

Here we see two brothers, apparently in 1934. We don't know where, unfortunately. The boys seem to be about 6 and 3 (or 4) years old. They are holding their toy cars and trucks. The boys seem to be quite dressed up for their photo, which seems to be a studio portrait. The older lad wears a dress white shirt and tie with pleated short pants with a somewhat unusual wide self-belt. It is probably a button-on outfit. He wears tan long stockings with supporters and high top shoes. His younger brother wears a button-on suit with very large white buttons. Notice that the black (velvet?) collar seems to match the shorts, buttoned on to his waist with ornamental white buttons. The younger boy wears white long stockings and high top shoes. The older boy's stockings don't fit very smoothly. He may be wearing long underwear (perhaps a waist union suit) underneath. Notice the hair cuts--the younger boy having short bangs and a sort of bowl hair cut. Our reaser writes, "The source gave 1934, which might be correct. But notice the toy cars. It seems to me that the dating is something of a challenge. Don't these look more like 1920s models? And the long underwear underneath one boy's stockings seems a little more like the 1920s than the 1930s to me. Do you have any opinion about this? I bet you will spot some features of the clothing that might help us to correct or narrow the date. The source was just an Internet note that I don't entirely trust. But a nice image nonetheless. I'm thinking late 1920s is better than 1934." Difficult to day. I would say tjat the image could have been taken anytime from the mid-20s to early 30s, but not much latter.

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