Figure 1.-- Here we see two Scarbourgh brothers wearing matching double-breasted short pants suits. The suits look brand new. Notice the patterned design on the knee sock cuff. The photograph is not dated, but looks like the 1930s. |
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The first type of turn-over-top knee socks with destinvctive decorative cuffs were the ones with a coloful pattern design. As far as we can tell, they were only done with grey knee socks, at least all of the images we hab founf so far look to be grey. We begin to see these patterned cuff knee socks in the 1920s. Ther were many different patters. The patterns were similar to the kinds of patterns we see on American knee socks, but confined to the turn over top cuff. We rarely see these American style knee socks in Britain, but we do occasionally see these patterned turn-over-top cuffs in America. They were very common in Britain. We see this quite commonly in the the 1930s and 40s. There ere some in the 50s, but not narly as cimmonkly as the 40s. The boy here is a good example (figure 1). Notice how mother has matches the sweather and socks tops. These patterned cuff knee socks were not a school style, but you might see them worn to school, on most cases a private school. We think they were more popular for boys than girls.
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