Figure 1.--Here we see a brother and sister photographed casually in informal clothes. It looks to be a park or some kind of community commons area. The girkl wears a dress and the boy Lederhosen and sandals. The clothes are casual, but I am not sure are play clothes. Note how the boy has buttoned his collar.

Boys wore Lederhosen for a range of different situations. Some boys might dress up in them. This included wear with a suit jacket or Bavarian jacket for church or parties. It also might mean informally casual family activities like picnics and garden parties. Lederhosen seem, however, most common for casual wear and school. Occasionaly boys wore them with their HJ uniforms. We see them being worn casually and to school. Boys wore Lederhosen casually both for home activities and for rough-and-tumble play. They seem especially common for school wear, although this seems to have been regional. Class photographs in the 1930s show many boys wearing lederhosen, especially in Bavaria and southern Germany.

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