Figure 1.--These Amish children are going to school. Notice that they carry their shoes instead of wearing them. Presumably they put them on at school. |
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Amish men and boys wear low-cut black leather shoes. One source says they wear brown shoes for work and blavl shoes when dressing up. Boys snd girls commonly go barefoot during the summer. We see the children carrying their shoes to school We are not sure why that was. Perhaps there was a state regulation abput wearing shoes at school. The Amish do not have distinctive children's dress. Boys wear the same clothes as men. The only clothing difference I know of is that many Amish boys go barefoot in the summer. We do not know to what extent this was from preference or to what extent the parents encouraged them to go barefoot.
A reader writes, "I don't know the reason; perhaps it is the school regulation. From what I have read, Amish children prefer to go barefoot and, if that were possible, surely they would be barefoot also during the lessons. That happens in other schools."
We note some boys wearing dark-colored sneakers. We are not sure how common that was. We mostly notice both boys and girls wearing black leather shoes when they are not barefoot.
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