Figure 1.-- Here we see a snapshot of a group of children with the friendly pooch. They were photographed by dad outside their home, we think in the 1920s. They look to be dressed for play in an affluent neigborhood. Sailor suits were clkearly populkar aswell as Indian costume.

We see all kinds of play tops. Younger boys wore button-on play suits, often with short sleeves and even sleeveless tops. "T"-shirts became very popular in the 1930s. Knickers standard during the 1920s and still very common in the 1930s. Youner boys were the most likely to wear short pants. they were most common with affluent families which were more apt to follow English and other European styles. Shorts were most common in the Southern states and California. A variety of play clothes for little boys coveralls were also worn. We do not yet seen many jeans, but younger boys might wear denim or corduroy coveralls some of which had bib front. Boys wore rompers in the 1910s, but by the 1920s had become more trim and were only worn by girls. Rural boys commonly wore overalls. Most older boys wore knickers for both school and play. In the early 1920s knickers were worn with long stockings or knee socks, but by the 1930s it became common to wear them with ankle socks--especially during the summer. Knicker suits were usually not worn with ankle scks, but play and casual knickers commonly were by the end of the 1930s. Overalls were commonly worn by rural boys, but city boys had not yet begun to wear what we now call jeans. Sneakers became very common for play, but were not very common for school. Unlike Europe, strap shoes and sandalsere not common even for play, but younger mostly pre-school boys might wear them. They were common for girls which is probably why the boys did not want to wear then.

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