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Here we have a portrait of the children doing First Communion at an unidentified Halifax church in May 1930. The children are all boys. Presumably this was a school group. The boys unlike some First Communion groups do not wear the same kind of suits. Rather there is a range of colors, and styles. Three boys wear sailor suits. Several boys just wear white shirts or blouses without suit jackets, an informal approch. And notethey have bowties rather than fkloppy bows. We note a variety of short, knicker, and long pants. They also wear a range of kneesocks and long stockings. Many of the children hve the First Communion sleeve ribbons. A reader writes, "It is worth noticing here that the boys wearing long stockings for First Communion seem to be wearing exclusively white or black stockings--not the beige that had become fairly common for school or ordinary occasions. Black or white long stockings appear to have been thought more formal. And yet this color conservatism doesn't seem to apply as rigorously to the boys wearing knee socks."
HBC's take on this is the boys wearing long stockings probably had them purchased specifically for this or other formal event. The boys wearing kneesocks, however, probably wear the kneesocks they normally wore with their suits.
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