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We note an undated Dutch family snapshot. It looks to us that it was taken in the 1930s, perhaps the late 1930s. The family has three children, two boys and a girl. The boys are older teenagers. One boy wears a long pants suit and the others a kneepants suit with long black stockings. Unfortunately the image is quite small makng it difficult to assess the age of the individuals. We have noted Dutch boys wearing knickers even in the 1940s and early 50s, but kneepants for the most part went out of style in the 1930s. We thought at first that this boy was wearing above the knee knickers, somewhat unusual for an older boy. On closerexamination he is wearing kneepants, also somewhat unusual for a boy his age. Available images suggest kneepants in the 1930s were worn to about age 13. This boy looks to be about 15-16 years old.
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