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Most scholl children, both boys and girls, wore long stockings which is readily apparent because boys so commonly wore knee pants. Black long stockings were especially common. There vwere colored stockings. It is a little dfficult to be sure about the color, but we mostly see dark colors and they were not all black. We believe black was the dominany colors. Some children, mostly girls, wore white long stockings, but the black and dark colors were much more common. Younger boys might wear white stockings. We rarely see any kind of hosiery besides long stockings. Socks wewre rare. Anerican hildren commonly wore stocking supporters to hold up the stockings. Long stockings were also commion in Europe, especially northrern Europe. There was one very significant exception to children wearing long stockings. Many boys came barefoot to school. Thus is something we do not see much in the 19th century because so much of the photograophy was studio photography for which mothers dressed up the children. Children going barefoot was very cimmon in the 19th century. We do not think that going barefoot was more common in the 1900s. We think that going barefoot was primarily an economic matter and thor prosperous the the opulation, the more children wore shoes. We do see more portaits of barefoot children studio ohotograohy which is something we do not understand. Here we mean regular portraits, not school pportraitsd. This is a phenoknenom we notice in the early 20th cedntyry, it tghen becomes rare agaiom in the 1920s
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