German First Communion Chronological Trends: The 2000s


Figure 1.-- One portrait in front of a small church in southern Germany during 2002 shows the children all dressed traditiionslly. The girls all wear junior white wedding dresses and most have little white pouches. I'm not sure what was put on those pouches. The boys mostly wear standard black suits. Several wear Bavarian-style jackets rather than a standard suit jacket with lapels. The Bavarian jackets vary somewhat.

We do not yet have much information on German First Communions during the 2000s. One portrait in front of a small church in southern Germany during 2002 shows the children all dressed traditiionslly. The girls all wear junior white wedding dresses and most have little white pouches. I'm not sure what was put on those pouches. The boys mostly wear standard black suits. Several wear Bavarian-style jackets rather than a standard suit jacket with lapels. The Bavarian jackets vary somewhat. One is brown. One of the boys wearing Bavarian jackers weares knicker-length pants and white kneesocks. All of the children have candels. Many of the boys do not wear neckties. Two boys wear red neckties. This probably reflects an overall decline in the popularity of neckties. We are not yet sure how common this was.







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