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It was not considered proper for boys or girls, except for the vary youngest, to go bare legged. And even many toddlers wore long stockings. As a result of the modesty factor, we note children wearing long stockings. Even younger children wore long stockings in the 19th century. It just was not seen proper for any one to show any bare leg, even children. Women wore long dresses. Girls could wear shorter dresses, but only iof their legs were covered with long stockings. The only real exception was children that went barefoot. Long stockings were not only worn for formality and warmth, but in circumstances that not only hardly called for long stockings and they even seem inappropriate to lour modern eyes. Thus we not only see long stockings being worn for casual wear, but even when children went to the beach during the summer. Seaside vacations began to increase in popularity in the late-1890s. And at the time , long stockings were still standard ear not only for children, but for teenagers as well. We see both boys and girls commonly wearing long stockings at seaside resorts, but actually on the beach. This changed slowly, first for boys and than for girls. Here Baden Powell's Boy Scouts helped tom make knee sock acceoptable. We still see long stovkings on the beach before World War I (figure 1), but not much after the War in the 1920s.
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