Figure 1.--Here we see the boys with their caps in a public location. The costume designers have chosen rather curious cap styles for the boys. We are not entirely sure why cap styles that were not very common were chosen. Notice the boy on the left. He wears a shirt with a sports collr. This was a casual style, but some boys tried to wear a tie wuth it, presumably at mom's urging.

There are some interesting shots of children's clothes in the film. We see Stella's daughter Laurel as a little girl of about 2 yeatrs of age being held by one of Stella's lower-class friends--(Ed Munn, a drunkard, played by Alan Hale. The little girl wears a white dress with white long stockings and supporters the fasteners of which you can see in the film. A few years lter we see the two younger boys to whom Laurel is introduced when she visits an upper-class lady in Boston. These boys wear short trousers suits in the movie--an upper class style in the 1930s. Hollywood often costumed upper-class boys in short pnts suits. Most school age American boys at the time wore either knickers or long pants suits. The boys wear ankle socks rather than knee socks, a fashion we see in America during the inter-War era. Here we see the boys with their caps in a public location. The costume designers have chosen rather curious cap styles for the boys. We are not entirely sure why cap styles that were not very common were chosen.

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