Figure 1.--Here we see a boy with his grand moter in the 1930s. We suspect that grandmother was being cared for in the family home. We have no information on the family, but the furnishings and the ability to take indoors sbapshots suggests a comfortable middle-class family. The boy looks to be about 10 years old. He wears Lederhosen and a haktar with a white shirt.

We notice German boys mostly wearing white shirts commonly short-leeved shirts with Lederhosen. The boys on the previous page at school are a good example. The boy here with his grandmother is another example (figure 1). Here the boys have not buttoned their collars, but we see many images where the boys have buttined their collars. We also see colored shirts, but white shirts were more common. Normally they were worn in the 1930s as a casual outfit without ties. For some reason this changed after World War II. We begin to see boys very commonly wearing brightly colored check shirts. These checked shirts were not unknown in the 1930s, but they were much less common. We are not sure why this change took place, but it was in the 1940s after the War.

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