Figure 1.--Here we see a school group in the 1920s. It is undated, but looks like the mid-1020s to us. Notice that the boys are wearing black long stockings. The girls wear white or tan shades of long stockings. Notoce the overalls. This was a school in a small town rural area.

There were major changes in the colorss of long stockings during the 1920s. We see this in both the photographic record and stire catalogs. American boys in the early 1920s were still primarily wearing black long stockings, mostly with knickers. Most of the dated images we have found for the early-20s show boys wearing black long stockings. Considerable detail is available in the Sears 1924 catalog. There were, however, still during 1924 a number of stocking choices that were available in "Black only". Both boys and girls wore black stockings. The girls, however, wore, a variety of light shades as well. While we see few boys wearing white stockings except the very early-20s, we do see quite a number of younger boys wearing the light-brown shades that appeared in the mid-20s, but rarely older boys school boys..

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