Figure 1.--Here we see a younger boy wearing white strap shoes with H-bar shorts and knee socks, probably in the 1920s. Notice the great toy elepgant. We have seen older boys wearing the white strap shoes earlier. |
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We are unsure about the colors of the strap shoes German boys wore. Almost all of our information at this time comes from black and white photographs. Black shoes were clearly very common, especially when dressing up. We also notice white strap shoes, mostly during the early-20gth century. The black and white shoes can usually be destinuished in black-and-white photographs. We are unsure, however, about the color of the many strap strap shoes won by German boys that are clearly nog black or white. There clearly were other colors. We suspect that younger boys may have worn red strap shoes. This was the case in England, but we can not yet confirm it in Germany. We suspect thst most of the strap shoes we see were various brown shades. We think that there were also dark blue strap shies. We can not yet evaluate just how common the colored shoes were. One example is two brothers in 1933. The boys seem to be wearing colored strp shoes, but we are not sure about the color. Factors such as age, gender, chronology all affected the color of srtrapped shoes worn. Our inability to assess the color in the photographic record makes it difficult to assess these various factors.
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