Figure 1.--We know nothing about this family portrait except that it is German. It is not dated, but looks to us to have been taken in the 1940s. Here the mother's dress may be more iseful to date the image than the boy's H-bar shorts. |
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Here we have a portrait of an unidentified German mother and son. We know nothing more about the portrait. The portrait is undated. It looks to us like the late 1930s or during the World war II in the early 1940s. One reason we think it might have been taken during the 40s is the father is not in the portrait. Presumably he is absent because he was serving in the German military somewhere in Europe. Here the mother's dress may be more useful to date the image than the boy's H-bar shorts. The boy has short hair and wears h-bar shorts. H-bar pants was a particularly popular style in Germany. Note how the H-bar straps are sewn on or attached by buttons on to the inside of the waistband. Instead of a tie, he wears little cloth balls. I'm not sure how to describe these little balls, but have noted them in both French and German clothes.
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