Re: [Cz-L] Pumphosen

I had Pumphosen as a child, in the early 1930.When I came to the shil
wearing them, an elder man asked me why do I need such pants? To hide
stolen apples from an orchard?
The imagination of people is remarkable!
Paul Heger

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 5:35 AM, Arthur von Czernowitz
<vonczernowitz_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> We made Aliyah from Romania, April 1, 1951, I got of the ship Transylvania in Haifa wearing Pumphosen.
> An Israeli kid looked at me and called me a "Palit" (refugee)
>
> Arthur
>
> --- On Wed, 4/11/12, Charles Rosner <frenchczern1_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> From: Charles Rosner <frenchczern1_at_yaAliyahhoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Pumphosen
> To: "Czernowitz Genealogy and History" <czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu>
> Date: Wednesday, April 11, 2012, 9:21 PM
>
>
> I knew them also by the name Pumphosen, as my parents called them.=A0And I =
> remember wearing them in Paris in the early fifties=A0 (of course, France a=
> s compared to Canada was certainly already old-fashioned...), but in French=
>  they were called pantalon de golf. By the way, Tintin (the famous hero of =
> the cartoons by Herg=E9; see also=A0Spielberg's recent movie) wears those k=
> nickerbokers in almost all of his adventures.
> Regards,
> Charles
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