Figure 1.--This family snapshot shows three unidentified good buddies, possibly brothers or cousins during the summer. The photograph is dated 1928. They look to be about 10-14 years old. They wear collared shirts, one hs aports collar. All three wear knickers with patterned knee socks. This is one of the earlier images we have of patterned knee socks.

American boys for a short period, mostly the late-1920s (beginning about 1928) and 30s, wearing knee socks done in argles and many different patterns with a variety of colors. Knickers were standard by the 1910s, but they were worn with long stockings, mostly black (1910s) and along with tan shades (1920s). Patterned knee socks along with knickers were srandard boys wear for about a decade. There are coutless snapshots and portraits in the photographic record to substantiate this. The photographic record is so substantial that we have gound many dated examples to establish the chronology involved in some detail. These patterned knee socks, actually knee socks in general fell out of stle (Lte 1930s). We later note as part of preppy style, argyles began to be wirn with Bermuda shorts, but we do not see manyboys wearing these knee socks.

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