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This is an Asheville, North Carolina family during the 1940s. We would guess the mid-1940s. The photograph was taken in the country. In fact they are on a farm. (Note the farm wggon in the background.) But we do not know if the family was a farm family or a city family having a picnic in the country or visiing country relatves. We suspect that they were a city family. Short pants and sandals were more common for city boys than farm boys. Of course, North Carolina is in the South and short pants were more common in the South than North. And the 1940s, especially after World War II was when the fashion dofferences between rural and urban families began to disappear in America. The boys wear a varierty of shorts sets. The older boy wear self-belted shorts. The younger boys seem to be wearig button-on outfits.
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