Figure 1.--Brightly colored sport shorts were very popular in the 1980s. Short cut shorts were common.
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Figure 1.--Brightly colored sport shorts were very popular in the 1980s. Short cut shorts were common. |
Jeans became increasingly popular in the 1970s. Belgium generally was more traditional than other European countries. Some boys still wore short pants suits in the 1970s because their parents insisted. A few private schools had short pants uniforms. Incereasingly boys wanted to wear jeans and other long pants.
Short pants were still worn, but increasingly as casual clothes for smmerwear. Brighter colored clothes become increasdingly popular.
Belgium boys in the 1990s dressed virtually indistinguisably from boys in France, Germay, Spain, Italy, Britain, and the United States. Boys wear jeans, large "t" shirts, sweat shirts, and tennis shoes. Distinctive French outfits are a thing of the past. Baseball caps are less popular in France than in America, but that
is one of the few differences.
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