Figure 1.--Here we see a German boy and his sister, probably in the 1920s. The boy wears black long stockings with knickers. As with many period photographs, it is difficult to tell just how long the stockings are. Note his sister wears light-colored stockings.

German boys until the 1930s mostly wore long stockings with kneepants and rather long, knee-length short pants. With knee-length pants, the length of the stockings were normally just a little above the knee. German boys up to their teens very commonly wore long stockings. We note boys wearing short, mid-length, and long long stockings. As short pants became shorter, much longer-length lonf stockings were needed. A good example is a farm boy, probably in the late 1940s. It is difficult to fully assess the length of those stockings as the boys in many images are wearing kneepants or longer-length short pants and we have virtually no catalog information. Most of our information from from portraits and snapshots.