Rich Children, Poor Parents

Clothing / Ihle p. 25, no. 68: The parents, who saved for their children and now come to them for support in their poverty, are still dressed in an old-fashioned style. The man wears a paltrock with ornamental sleeves. On his head a bonnet over his cap. The woman wears a headscarf folded into two flaps on her chest. The second generation is dressed in a modern and fashionable style. The ladies wear high, foreign-style coiffures and the farthingale. The man is dressed in a German-looking short breeches under which a narrow trouser leg is visible, a combination that appears historical. Only the son on the right wears the wide breeches. The girl in the foreground also wears a farthingale. Her ornamental sleeves are attached at the back. High coiffure secured in a net.