Figure 1.--This German boy hold his first day of school cone of treats. He wears a halter and Lederhosen. I'm not sure about the date of this portrait, perhaps the 1930s.
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Figure 1.--This German boy hold his first day of school cone of treats. He wears a halter and Lederhosen. I'm not sure about the date of this portrait, perhaps the 1930s. |
We note changing conventions concerning the halter, both for general wear and for schollwear. Almost all of the early photographs of boys wearing lederhosen to school show them being worn with decorative halters. This seems to have been the common convention through the 1930s. This began to change in the 1940s. We note that by the 1950s that a number of boys, especially older school boys wearing lederhosen without the halters. We also notice Lederhosen more commonly being worn in other areas of Germany than Bavaria and being more commonly won as casual clothing. We are not sure just why age differentiation developed. We suspect that the older boys saw the halter as a kind of suspender shorts which were associated with younger boys. We see quite a few German boys wearing Lederhosen to school in the 1950s, especially in West Germany.
We note changing conventions concerning the halter, both for general wear and for schollwear. Almost all of the early photographs of boys wearing lederhosen to school show them being worn with decorative halters. This certainly was the case for Lederhosen in the 19th and early 20th centuries. This seems to have been the common convention through the 1930s. It w especially was the case for younger boys and continued to be the common convention even in the 1940s and 50s.
This began to change in the 1940s.
We note that by the 1950s that a number of boys, especially older school boys wearing lederhosen without the halters. We also notice Lederhosen more commonly being worn in other areas of Germany than Bavaria and being more commonly won as casual clothing. We are not sure just why age differentiation developed. We suspect that the older boys saw the halter as a kind of suspender shorts which were associated with younger boys. We see quite a few German boys wearing Lederhosen to school in the 1950s, especially in West Germany. This is not to say that no teenagers wore halters with their Lederhosen. It is to say that many of the older children did noy wear halters with Lederhosen.
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