Figure 1.--Here we see what is probably an extended family group in 1927. We think the boys may be cousins. Two of the boys wear Lederhosen with very plain haltars. Note the long length. The younger boys do not wear Lederhosen. We see three of these boys a year later in a family snapshot, we think in front of the same home.

HBC has noted boys quite a number of boys wearing Lederhosen during the 1920s. They still seem mostly confined largely to Bavaria in Germany. Lederhosen seem more common than in the 1910s, at least along younger boys. But HBC does not have sufficent information to confirm this. We note primary children wearing H-bar shorts, but it is often difficult to determine if the boys are wearing lrederhosen. Lederhosen did not have the image as a boys' garment in the 1920s. We see boys, teenagers, and men wearing them. We even see photographs showing Freikorps men and NAZI storm troopers wearing Lederhosen. This changed by the end of the decade, perhaps because Hitler stopped wearing them because he wanted to project a more serious image. (Göring never did.) Actually the age conventions seem to be that younger pre-school boys did not wear them. But we see boys of all ages wearing them once reaching school age. They seem to be mostly worn as a casual or school garment, at least by boys.

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