SCHOOL picture day can be a hassle — unless of course you’re the 7-year-old boy from Indiana, the U.S., whose camera-ready outfit was picked out for him before he was even old enough to go to class.

    Brady Gose, 7, of Brownsburg, Indiana, was the fifth member of his family to wear a signature sweater for first-grade school picture day last week.

    The tradition was started by Gose’s grandfather Charles Gose who wore the sweater for his first grade school photo in 1958.

    The grey and blue striped sweater was also worn by Brady’s father Chuck in 1982 in Springboro, Ohio, and before him was sported by his two uncles Barry and Mark in Maine who are Brady great-uncles.

    Chuck Gose’s father and two uncles all wore the sweater for their first grade pictures when they lived in Maine because their grandmother thought it would be cute.

    “If we had a family heirloom, this simple store-bought sweater is it,” Chuck Gose, Brady’s father, said. “As Brady’s dad, it means the world to see his pride in wearing the sweater.”

    When Chuck wore the sweater in 1982 it was in an Ohio newspaper in an article that featured photos of all the Gose family members wearing the sweater.

    “The sweater is a way for his memory to live on, not only to my son but also future generations,” Chuck Gose said.(SD-Agencies)