German Tights: Colors


Figure 1.--This undated German snapshot was probanly taken about 1980. It shows a boy wearing bib-front jean shorts and bright blue tights.

Our infirmation on German tights colors is very limited at this time. German boys before World War II wore long stockings in soft colors. With the black and white photography they look to be brown or fawn, but it is diiicult to tell. I think the boys are wearing long stockings, but they could be tights. One might suspect that the first tights might follow long stocking colors, but we are not yet sure about that. A factor here may be that at first mostly boys wore tights in Germany. (We have not yet been able to cinfirm this.) After tights became popular in the early 1960s, we are not sure what colors were initially offered. Eventually bright colors began to appear, including royal blue, green, red, and yellow as well as black and white. We know that American girls wore all sorts of bright colors. The same may have been true in Germany. Our color information, however, is very limited. I'm not sure which colors German boys preferred, but presumably blue, brown, and black. Age was probably a factor with color choice.









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