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We have begun to collect informations about the the conventions associated with Lederhosen during the 1940s. Class photographs show boys wearing lederhosen. Assessing the school photoigraphs can be difficult. Often you can not see the pants that the boys are wearing. Some boys wearing halters may look mlike they are wearing Lederhosen, but were not necesarily wearing Lederhosen. In fact, as far as we can tell, the boys often as not were not wearing Lederhosen with these haltars. We see boys wearing Lederhosen to school. This can be assessed by looking at the German 1940s school pages. We believe that Lederhosen by the 1940s had begun more than a regional Bavarian style. We also see boys wearing Lederhosen for play. We suspect that Lederhosen were not pants that boys commonly changed when they came home from school. And we note many snapshots showing younger boys wearing Lederhosen for play and older boys wearing for casual wear. Here we see boys wearing them for play (figure 1). This coukd easily have been their school clothes as well. The snapshot is undated, but looks lkoke the 1940s. We are not sure how common they were for boys' dressing up with suit jackets. We note on the previous page a boy wears a suit jackets with Lederson while another boy wears what looks like a casual shirt. These colored checked shirts seem to have become popular with Lederhosen after the War, both for schoolwear and casual wear.
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