This picture was just too irresistible. This photo of an intrepid bar mitzvah boy wrapped in his bar mitzvah tallis is from the Matson Collection. He is wearing his bar mitzvah tallis according to the German (and Yemenite) custom. Notice the sign in the background with its anglicized Yiddish. The Hebrew letters read: FERLANKT EKSPERIENSD DRESS MEKERINS TZU DRESSIS OIF...