Figure 1.--Here we see all the children wearing Lederhosen and halters, including the girls. Notice that the older boy has his halter set very high. We are not sure if he put in on wrong or he is outgrowing it. The younger children wear Lederhosen that look like belonged to older children first.

Unlike sailor suits, Lederhosen were eidely seen as a male garment. Thus we rarely see all the children in a family dressed in Lederhosden. It was sometimes the case for all the boys to wear Lederhosen, but the forls wore dresses. This was virtuslly always the case before World War II. After the War we see a few examples of sisters wearing Lederhosen as well, but not very many. Changing conventions were a factor as we begin to see a few younger girkls wearing short pants. Thus we see a few mothers not only dressing all the boys in Lederhosen, but the girls as well, at least when they were relatively young. This never beca,e a major style, in part because by the 1970s when pants for girls became nore acceptable, the popularity of Lederhosen began to decline as more children wanted to wear jeans. We are not sure what the girls thought of this, but as the only family snapshots we have found show only little girls wearing Lederhosen with their brothers, we suspect that vthey were not wild about wearing

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