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This is a studio photographi portrait of the four Ford children taken in New Cordell, Oklahoma. The state of Oklamoma is located at the juncture of the Southwest, South, amd Mid-west. In many ways it is culturally most associiatd with Texas and the South. The photograph was taken in 1910. There are four chilren who look to be about 4-10 years old. The girls wear similar white dresses with white hair bows, white long stockings, and black strap shoes. The youngr boy wears a sailor suit. His slightly older brother wears a blouse or shirt, perhaps with a detachable collar. Both boys are barefoot. Usually the children wear hoes for portraits, but e nirice quite a number of barefoot boys in the 1900s and 10s. We are not sure why this convention changed. A reader believes that they are barefoot by choice. We are inclined to agrre. If their parents could afford shoes for the girls, it is likely they could for the boys. The boys probably fojund it more comprtable to go barefoot, although we are not entirely sure if this was because of the shoes or the long stockings that went along with the shoes. And mother who clearly dressed up the children for the portrait did not object. Clearly shoes were not een as necesary when dressung up boys at the time, although this caried refionally and socially. We see quite a few examples of this in the 1900s and 10s, especially the early-10s.
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