Figure 1.-- We see a lot of German boys wearing Lederhosen in the 1950s. They seem to have been wore as casual summer wear as this boy is wearing them as well as for outdoor wear, perhaps for a family picnic. Notice that he does not yet have a haltar. He wears knee siocks, probably grey ones.

We note German boys wearing Lederhosen with a variety of hosiery in the 1950s. There were major shifts in hosiery trends after World War II in Germany and other European countries during the 1950s. Ankle socks were brecoming more common in the 50s, at first in the summer. We see many boys wearing Lederhosen with ankle socks. This was not very common in the 1940s. Many boys still wore knee socks. We see both plain and patterned knee socks. The image here is a good example (figure 1). Here is another image from the German Hosiery Museum showing patterened long stockings worn with Ledehosen--also from the 1950s. We also see boys wearinhg long stockingss, especially in the early-50s. We see a German boy with Lederhosen and long stockings in 1957. We see very few examples of boys wearing long stockings after this.

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