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Hungarian boys wore the standard garmnts worn by other European boys. HBC has some limited information on garments worn by Hungarian boys and have only begun to collect information on specific garments. Younger boys for many years wore dresses. We are unsure how common smocks wre, but we do know that school children commonly wore them, especially after World War II. Sailor suits as in most European countries were a popular style. Short pants were commonly worn by Hungarian boys through the 1950s. They declined in popularity in the 1960s, but some boys still wore them. Boys wearing short pants commonly wore kneesocks, both white and coloted kneesocks. Hungary boys wore sandals, although HBC at this time has very limited
information.
Hungarian boys wore many different styles of sailor hats and caps. These appear to be he same styles worn by boys all over Europe. We not both wide-brimmed salor hats worn by younger boys with sailor suits and other outfits. Boys also wore caps based on the uniform styles of the Austro-Hungarian Imperial Navy in the years before World War I. Many of the details such as streamers, hat bands, and elastic chin straps are not yet available. Other styles of caps may hav also be worn, but we have only limited informtion at this time.
We are unsure how common smocks were, but we do know that school children commonly wore them, especially after World War II. At least some Hungarian boys wore school smocks. Many unbuttoned them after school. This suggests that the boys were anxious to take them off as quickly as possible after school. I do not think that they were commonly worn except for school. A film shows front buttoning blue smocks. I'm not sure what styles other schools had.
We notice a Hungarian boy from a fashionable family wearing a tunic suit with vloomer knickers, probbly in the early 1870s.
HBC has little information on the sailor suits worn by Hungaian boys. We believe that they were commonly worn by boys, but because we have so little information and so few images, we can not say a great deal at this time. Hungary is of course a land-locked country located squarely in the middle of Europe. But before 1918, Hungary was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire did have a navy. HBC is unsure at this time to what extent there were differences between Austria and Hugay as to the popularity of the sailor sit or the styles of sailor suits worn. We notice one boy in 1911 wearing an all-white sailor suit, even the neck scarve was white. Only his long stockings were not white. We have no information at this time as to sailor suits worn in Hungary after World WarI.
Hungarian boys wore both kneepants and bloomer knickers at the turn of the 20th century. Older boys wore long pants, the actual age varying greatly froim family to family. Short pants became popular in the 1920s after World War I. Short pants were commonly worn by Hungarian boys through the 1950s. They declined in popularity during the 1960s, but some boys still wore them.
Hungarian boys in the late 19th and early 20th century commonly wore long over-the-knee stockigs. Boys wearing short pants after World War I commonly wore kneesocks, both white and colored kneesocks.
Hungary boys wore sandals, although HBC at this time has very limited information. A boy in a 1969 wore closed toe sandals. It appears to have been a minority style, but was worn. HBC at this time does not know if closed or open toe styles were more common. Only closed-toe styles were pictured in the film. German clothibg styles are often important in Central Europe, but HBC is not sure if this is the case in Hungary. German boys after World War II mostly wore open-toe sandals while closed toe-styles were more common in England and France. They do not appear to have been entirely a leizure style as at least some boys were wearing them to school with blue smocks.
Leggings are a garment that we do not know a great deal about. We have one image of an Hungarian boy in the 1920s wearing leggings, but we are a little confused as the leggings look to be worn under rather than on top of the pants. We are not sure, however, how common this was.
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