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A British reader tells us, "One of my room mates at my German Swiss boarding school in 1954-55 wore long stockings on very cold days, but only under his Bluejeans. He preferred them to long underpants which I and the other boys wore.
We were 3 boys to a room and all 3 of us were 13 at the time. I was particularly fascinated because I was English and had never seen such a thing before. His long stockings were light brown or tan color and held up by nothing more elaborate than straps of a sort of canvas material that came up over the waist band of his jeans and clipped on to the sturdy leather belt holding up his jeans.
This boy was from Bavaria and called Mathias, and he was my best friend at the time. A sissy he most definitely was not. Almost uniquely in our school Mathias almost never wore short pants, except he occasionaly wore Lederhosen in the summer."
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