Figure 1.--The British brothers were photographed in a garden about 1960. Note the crew-neck sweaters. They look to have been knitted, probably by grandmother. |
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We have few details at this time as to how popular home knitting was in England. We wonder if World War I did not increase the extent of home knitting. We notice a lot of portraits after the War showing boys wearing knitted sweaters and socks. This continued through the 1950s, but began to decline in the 1960s. We suspect that in the 1960s English mums were less interested in spending their time knitting, although for a while grandmothers and aunts still knitted extensively. Also declining prices for sweaters and socks (in real terms) and rising wages made hime knitting less attractive. This was especially the case for the increasing number of mothers who worked outside the home.
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