Figure 1.--We are unsure about this image. We at first thought it might bev a summer camp as it is located in Maine. Milom is locatd inn an area popular for outdoor activities. Camps in the 1930s, howevr, were mostly single gender and campers did not dress like this. Girls did not all wear dresses and boys collared shirts. The building in the back, however, does not look much like a school. The location is also surprising as we see boys weating shorts to school especially in the Siut, but Maine is just about as far north as you can go except for Alaska.

We see notable regioinal differences in pants during the 1930s. The primary duifference was that boys in the Southern states tended to wear short pants more than in the North. This of course was due to he warmer weather in the South. The difference between the Souther states and the far northern states was substantial. And of course this was before home and school air conditioning. Winter weather in the 30s were longer and summer-weather shorter than is the case today. Which may have affected wearing shorts to school. And in America, most of the school year is during the realtively cool Fall, winrer, and soring months,. This didn't affect knickers much because worn with knee socks they were as warm as long pants. Of course there were other factors involved, especially the fact that older boys did not want to dress like little boys. But reguonality was clear a factor as it can be obssrved in the photograohic record. We only observe this in the elementary schools. This was only the boys. Girls continued wearing dresses and to a lesser extent skirts to school. Boys in the South commonly had short pants for summer wear. Some school-age boys in the North did not have short pants.

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