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Our information on German hosiery duriung the 19th century is limited, especially the early- and mid-19th cenbtury before phoography becanme commonplace. In the early 19th century we have noted boys white socks worn with long pants skeleton auits. We are not sure, however, what the length of the socks were. we believe that they were rather like three-quater socks. Our information is limited because of the small number of available images as well as the fact boys tended to wear long pants. And girls who were probably wearing the same hosiery also had their legs covered with long dresses ad pantalettes. We also know little about the mid-19th century. Unlike America there are very few German Daguerreotypes or other early photographic formats. We know much more about the late-19th cetury. German boys commonly wore long stockings as knee pants becme more common in the late-19th century. White long stockings wee common in the 1860s and 70s for both boys and girls, at least the younger boys wearing knee pants. We also notice striped stockings in the 1870s. Older school-age German boys tended to wear long pants until relatively late in the 29th century. Thus it is not readily apparent just what kind of hosiery the boys were wearing. By the late-19th century it is easier to tell because so many boys were wearing knee psnts. Long stockings were vwry common, but we notice some boys wearing three-quarter socks, mostly younger boys.
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