Figure 1.--This drawing shows Young Pioneers working on some kind of activity at school. The blue scarves show that they are younger children. The illustration came from a 1963 DDR school book for beginning readers "Lesen und Lehrnen".

We have limited unformation about Herman Young Pioneers. Available images, however, show tights being worn as part of Young Pioneer uniforms. They appear to be sceens from school. It may well be that the tights were not a formal part of the uniform, but simply the optional hosiery worn with the uniform. We know, for example, that some younger boys did wear tights to school. The available images show hat it was younger boys that ended to wear tights with their Pioneer uniforms. We do not know if tights were worn as part of a formal dress uniform.