Figure 1.-- This is an interesting photograph of some of the children from a German primary class in 1955. Notice the goody cones. They were by the 1950s a long-established German tradition for the children starting school. (Note the boy who didn't get a cone.) This is a mixed class of boys and girls together. Two boys in the front row wear long stockings. Some of the other boys wear long baggy ski-type pants, perhaps with long stockings underneath. But I think the ski-pants had become an alternative for schoolboys during the chilly months.

This is an interesting photograph of some of the children from a German primary class in 1955. We do not know the name of the school or where it was located, only the date. A German reader writes, "I think the school photo here is from southwest Germany because the children are wearing fine cloths, some with Bavarian styling." Note the boy wearing the Bavarian-style suit jacket. Notice the goody cones. They were by the 1950s a long-established German tradition for the children starting school. We are, however, unsure if the tradition was continued in East Germany after World War II. This is a mixed class of boys and girls together. Two boys in the front row wear long stockings as part of their coldweather outfits. Some of the other boys wear long baggy ski-type pants, perhaps with long stockings underneath. But I think the ski-pants had become an alternative for schoolboys during the chilly months. The two boys in the front row wear brown long stockings with a Strapsleibchen (four garters with commercial loop and rubber button clasps as opposed to the earlier elastic tape garters with graduated button-holes that fastened to buttons sewn onto the top of the stockings by mothers). Long stockings were becoming less common by 1955, but they were still being worn.

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