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The most common knee socks worn with school uniforms are grey. The grey was done in mny shdes from light grey to dark charcoal. Grey was also a commonm color for boys' suits. Boys not wearing shool uniforms tended to wear knee socks in other muted colors like black blue, brown, and green, basically pants and suit colors. This is little difficult to follow becuse at the time that short pants and knee socks were most common for school wear, photogrsohy was mostly black and white, so we do not have a lot of colored images. Black knee socks were worn in a few countries, but were not all that common. Surpising given how common black long stovkimgs had been. White knee socks were primarily for girls, especially in Bitgin, but we see French and German boys wearing white knee ehrn dressing ip for specilly occasssions. Some Catholic schools in France had white knee socks as part of the school uniform, usually worn with blue short pants. Grey was also common in Geramny and other European countries, but not dominant as in Britain. Color photogrphy only became common in the 1970s and by that time boys wearing short pants and knee socks to school was much less common than it had been earlier, but we do have some European images including color photograsphy, nucvh of it from Britain and Brtish Empire countries where school unifims were common. A wide variety of colored knee socks are also nworn, although not commonly in England. HBC has noted various shades of blue, black, brown, and green. Khaki was popular in South Africa nd o lesser exent udtrsli. And we notice a lot of dark blue uniforms in New Zealand. American boys commonly wore long stockings and knee socks to school with knickers (1920s-30s). This was not a school uniform, but their regular clothes nd common dchool wear.. Black long sockingd were common, but by the late-1920s, American boys were wearing knee socks done in colorful patterns. This was detinctly American pehnomnon. Unfortunately the images we have found are black and white. While most school knee socks were grey or oher muted colors. We see some schools with uniform knee socks in bright colors. This was for some reason particularly common in Scotland as you can seefrom yhe previous page.
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