Figure 1.--Austria boys wore knee pants, kniclers, short pants, and long pants in the 20th century. By the early 1960s we see mostlt short and long pants. By the end of the decsde, long pants were becoming increasingly prevalent.

We have not yet developed details on the pants worn by Austrian boys. Austrian boys all the different styles of pants, incliding knee breeches, long pants, kneepants, knickers, and short pants. We suspect that there is considerable similarity with Germany. Austria is a much smaller country. We have as a result a realtively small archive of Austrian images. Austrian boys wore essentially the same pants asother European boys. One destinctive style in Austria is Lederhosen. They were more common in Audtria than Germany because Austria is an Alpine style. We note boys wearing kneepants beginning in the mid-19th century. This was a popular style into the 20th century. It was boys' style, but we note one unidentified portrait of what looks like a girl wearing kneepants. Kneepants went out of styles in the 1920s, but we note boys wearing knickers into the 1950s. Shoer pants became very common in the 1920s and were widely won into the 1960s. Younger boys began commonly wearing long pants in the 1960s and long pants are now the most common form of trousers worn by boys. We also note boys wearing bloomer knickers.
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