Figure 1.--Here we see some of the Doorn-Broeren family, a rural Dutch family in 1930. Notice the mother's traditional Dutch haedwear. The children are all formally dressed. The boys and girls wear dark long stockings. Long stockings were declining in popularity, but still worn in cold weather and in the children of conservative families. Put your cursor on the image to see the boys who are all dressed in conservative dark suits. Piet (the 12-year-old in the front row, extreme left) is wearing a dark knee-pants suit with white shirt and tie, black long stockings. .

This is the rural Doorn-Broeren family (1930). It was obviously a big family, as rural families often were. There were several children, both boys and girls (figure 1). Standing (from left to right) in the back row are Jos, Toon, Jan and Drieka. In the front row sitting (from left to right) are Piet, Sien, Lien (standing), Marie van Doorn-Broeren (the mother and matriarch), and Mien. The picture was taken in front of their farm house. Notice the mother's elaborate traditional Dutch headdress. The children are all very formally dressed. Piet (the 12-year-old in the front row, extreme left) is wearing a dark knee pants suit with white shirt and tie, black long stockings (probably with a garter waist), and black shoes. Jos, standing behind him, seems to be wearing a long trousers suit, although it is a little difficult to tell. The conservative appearance of this family, especially the fact that they are all dressed in black (except for Sien who is wearing a bright plaid dress), suggests to us that they are Roman Catholic--possibly from North Brabant. The girls all wears dresses or skirts along with hair bows. The hair bow seem an vestahe of 1920s styles, we see fewer of them in gthe 1920s. They also wear black stockings. Long stockings were declining in popularity, but still worn in cold weather and in the children of conservative families. Just where the father of the family is we don't know. He may have been the photographer or he might be deceased.

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