Figure 1.-- In this still we seet Dickie Moore wearing a brown tweed knee pants suit with brown long stockings. A reader writes, "Although this costuming makes an effort to be accurate, it is probably inaccurate for the period (the 1890s) when New York boys in knee pants suits more commonly wore black long stockings, not brown."

Dickie Moore was a popular boy actor of the late 1930s, but by 1943 he was a growing teenager and eager to move away from boy roles. He was, however, having a harder time finding parts. Thus he was happy to be in a major part, but didn't at all like his costume. Dickie reportedly hated wearing kneepants. In his role as Henry Van Cleve (at the age of 15) the boy is kept in knee pants against his will and complains about it. In this still we seet Dickie Moore wearing a brown tweed knee pants suit with brown long stockings. A reader writes, "Although this costuming makes an effort to be accurate, it is probably inaccurate for the period (the 1890s) when New York boys in knee pants suits more commonly wore black long stockings, not brown."

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