Figure 1.--We see German boys wearing sandals with Lederhosen both before and after World War II. These brothers wear red "T'-strap shoes. They look to be about 4-7 years old. The photograph is undated, but we would guess was taken in the early 1960s.

We see German boys wearing sandals with Lederhosen, but this was somewhat less common than other types of footwear. Notice the boys here wearing closed-toe sandals, probably some time in the 1920s (figure 1). Closed-toe sandals were worn before World War II. We see some open-toe sandals, but not very commonly. We see mostly strap shoes and "T"-strap sandals. We are not sure of the color because of the black-and-white pohotography of the day. Age here was a factor, although a complicated one. Sanda;ls were more complicated for younger boys. We do, however, see quite old boys at time wearing whatwe think is the the cloth-type strap shoe, a related shoe typoe. After the War we still see closed-toe sandals, but gradually open-toe sandals became much more common, especially by the 1970s.

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