Figure 1.--Here we see a grandfather with his three grandchildren. The undated portarit has a three poart paper frame. We suspect it was taken in the late-1020s. The boy wears suspender shiorts with long stocking, still common in Wisconsin. The suspender straps are unusually wide. The studio was Otto Linke in Miluaukee, Wisconsin.

Many of the suspender shorts we see noys wearing were shorts dome as opart of suits, such as the sgorts for juvenil Etin suits. Buying stand alone suspender shorts as we see in Europe was not as common, We do see some susopenered offered as part of shorts sets in catalogs that became ppopular in the 1940s, but button-on shorts seem much more common for these sets. We are assesing popularity as how commonly we see a garment in the photographic record. That would not work for many countries for which we have only a few images, but we have a very substantial American archive. And we just do not see many Amerian boys wearing suspender shorts. At least that is our preliminary assessment. We do, however, note some boys wearing elasticizesd clip-on suspenders with shorts. We see quite a few examoles of this in the 1950s.Social Class

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