Figure 1.--This unidentified magazine article after the War advising mothers how to make a boy's school suit, a short pants vest suit, out of father's old clothes. It reflected the scarcity of consumer goods and limited income of German families after the War. The title is 'Aus Vaters alter Sporthose ein neuer Schulanzug' meaning 'From father old sports trousers a new school suit'. It is not clearly apparent to us just why father had 'sports trousers'. Apparently many German men had them. This was notthe case in America. Or just how the material could be turned into a boys' suit, but the illustration at the lower right seems to explain that. . Unfortunarely the available scan does not permit reading the text of the article. The article is not dated, but would have appeared in the later 1940s or possibly even the early-50s. By the early-50s the Germn Economic Miracle begn to remake Germany making salvaging used clothing a thing of the past, at least in the 1940s or 50s. We have not noted many of these vest suit in the photographic record.

The 1940s were dominated by World War II. we have very little information on German catalogs or advertisements from the 1940s. We do note a Kinder Korselett in an unidentified 1940 catalog or periodical advertisement. It seems like more of a Leibchen. We know that large quantities of consumer goods, including clothing, were obtained in France as part of the German exloitation of that country during the occupation (1940-44). We do not know if any of these shipments appeared in catlogs. The War began to go ahainst Germany (December 1941) and this affected the availability of consumer goods. We do not have catalog items, however, to follow this. With the destruction of German industry in the final year of the war, companies presumably ceased printing catalogs. Of course large numbers of factories including textile and garment plants were destroyed. We motice a magazine article after the War advising mothers how to make a boy's school suit, a short pants vest suit, out of father's old clothes. It reflected the scarcity of consumer goods and limited income of German families after the War.

1940s

We notice a magazine article after the War advising mothers how to make a boy's school suit, a short pants vest suit, out of father's old clothes (figure 1). It reflected the scarcity of consumer goods and limited income of German families after the War. The title is 'Aus Vaters alter Sporthose ein neuer Schulanzug' meaning 'From father old sports trousers a new school suit'. It is not clearly apparent to us just why father had 'sports trousers'. Apparently many German men had them. This was notthe case in America. Or just how the material could be turned into a boys' suit, but the illustration at the lower right seems to explain that. . Unfortunarely the available scan does not permit reading the text of the article. The article is not dated, but would have appeared in the later 1940s or possibly even the early-50s. By the early-50s the Germn Economic Miracle begn to remake Germany making salvaging used clothing a thing of the past, at least in the 1940s or 50s. We have not noted many of these vest suit in the photographic record.

1940

We do note a Kinder Korselett in an unidentified 1940 catalog or periodical advertisement. It seems like more of a Leibchen.

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