Figure 1.--Here we see a charming group of children somewhere in Germany during the 1920s. The children look to be 9 or 10 years old. The way they are costuming, they must be more than a play group. They seem to be performing "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."

Here we see a charming group of children somewhere in Germany during the 1920s. The children look to be 9 or 10 years old. The wy they are costuming, they must be more than a play group. They seem to be performing "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." The costumes are pretty rudimentary. The seven children all wear conical peaked hats and false beards but this is about the extent of their costuming. A reader writes, "I think that at least three (if not more) of the dwarfs are girls. They have pigtails. " Even so, they wear their ordinary boys clothes, presumably because the dwarfs were male. The children wear boys play (or school) clothes--short trousers with suspenders, long brown, tan, or black stockings, and ordinary long-sleeved shirts or jackets of various types. The single girl, playing Snow White, has of course long blonde hair and a white dress. It is clearly an outdoor performance in a grove of trees meant to represent a forest. The boy at the extreme right wears round garters to hold up his long stockings, which was unusual. Most of the others seem to hold up their long stockings in the common way with a Leibchen and Strapse (= hose supporters).

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