Figure 1.--Here we see an unidentified German brother and sister wearing dressy white summer outfits. The girl wears a summer dress. The boy werasrs a white blouse and short pants. Both wear white socks and strap shoes. Put your cursor on the imsge to see the children year or so earlier.

Older boys would wear suits when dressing up. Younger boys might dress up with a blouse without a jacket. Here age conventions varied over time. We do not yet have information on blouses outfits and strap shoes in the 19th century. We see boys in the early-20th century we see boys wearing strap shoes which fancy, formal blouse outfits. There were a variety of blouse styles. Most seem to have been white. Some were verry fancy, but we also see plasin styles as well. These fancy blouses were often worn with short pants, white socks, and formal strap shoes. Black strap shoes seem the nost common, but thee were also colored shoes as well.

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