Figure 1.--Here we see an American boy probably in the erly 1940s wearing a button-on sailor suit with striped ankle socks and single-bar sandals. Note the split center strap. |
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We notice some boys wearing cloesed-toe single strap sandals that had a split center strap. The center strap was split near the bottom forming a kind of upside down "Y". We do not notice this style very commonly, at least for play sandals. We think this was a style worn in the 1930s and 40s. The examples that we have found are American. We have not yet noted this style in Britain or other countries. The single-bar sandals tended to be very widely worn by boys in England and to a lesser degree in Europe, but much less so in America. The standard "T"-strap school sandal was enormously popular in England. But we do not notice this split-center strap. We do note this style with girl's dress patent leather shoes, but less commonly with children's play sandals. We are not sure about the colors involved. As with sandals in general, they were generally worn by younger American boys, but more commonly among girls of various ages.
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