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We do not have much information on the color of long stockings that the children wore. Long stockings disappeared before color photography was very common. Thus except for white we can not tell what color the stockings were. We see a lot of dark colored stockings. They were the most common. We are not sure if they were black or navy blue. Both show up similarly in black and white photographs. Because many schools had navy blue uniforms, we think navy blue stockings were the most common common. We see some white stockings. This is the one color we can be realtively sure about. There wee some light colors, but it is usually possible to tell if the stockings were white and not a light color. We believe that the white stockings were often used when dressiung up for some special event. We begin to see some light-colored stockings. We are not sure what color is involved, probably fawn and/or gray.
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