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We have very limited information on garments worn by Mexican boys at this time. Wide-brimmed straw hats with white shirts and pants and boys going barefoot or wearing sandals were common in Mexico among but in rural areas and small towns. I'm not sure if there was a name for these outfits. Middle class and upper class boys more commonly wore the same garments popular in Europe. Europe was the main influence until after World War II when American garments, like baseball caps, became increasingly popular. One garment we note not only in Mexico, but throughout Latin America are fancy suits often done in white for pre-school children. One reader thought they might be First Communion outfits, but this does not seem to be the case. Some are made in a satin-like material. We are not sure what they are called, but presumably some kind of " traje ". Hopefully our Mexican readers will provide some insights here.
Perhaps no garment is more associated with Mexico than the large, wide-brimmed sombrero. This is largely a tourist garment today, but these large brimmed hats were once worm in Mecico, more by men than boys. A boy would be more liked to wear a modest wide-brimmed straw hat. Today baseball caps are more common.
we note not only in Mexico, but throuughout Latin America are fancy suits often done in white for pre-school children (figure 1). One reader thought they might be First Communion outfits, but this does not seem to be the case. Some are made in a satin-like material. We are not sure what they are called, but presumably some kind of " traje ". Hopefully our Mexican readers will provide some insights here. Short pants often done as suspender shorts were once common. Now long pants outfits are more common. Some are done as minature tuxedoes.
We have very limited information on garments worn by Mexican boys at this time. Wide-brimmed straw hats with white shirts and pants. The pants were often worn at calf level, but not as short pants. I am not sure just why that was.
Nor am I sure just how and when the styles developed. Boys commonly went barefoot or wore sandals were common in Mexico, both in rural areas and small towns throughout the 19th century and the early 20th century. The big wide-brimmed hats became a sterotypic characture of Mexico. The facts were, however, very widely worn. Tewo of Mexico's most proinant fidures, Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata, wore these hats. I'm not sure if there was a name for these outfits. We use the term here "camposino outfits" for want of a better term meaning traditional clothing. Girls' outfits can be very colorful, but boys mostly wore white. Typical clothing for girls and boys included a skirt, a “huipil” (a kind of sleeve-less tunic), a “quechquémitl” (a closed shoulder cape) and a “rebozo” (a kind of shawl). We do not know of amy special names for boys' garments.
The serape until the mid-20th century was worn by camasino and Indian boys. We believe, however, that the origgins were more South American (Andean) than Mexican. The Serape is called a poncho in South America. I don't think it was a style brought to Mexico during the colonial era. Ot apparently was a style alredy in Mexico. This may have been just a matter of simplicity and practicality for Native American weavers.
Middle class and upper class boys more commonly wore the same garments popular in Europe. Europe was the main influence until after World War II when American garments, like baseball caps, became increasingly popular. Today in cities, the clothing worn by Mexicans do not differ very much from the clothes worn in America and Europe.
Boys wear "T"shirts in bright colors. Clothes since the 1970s have become essentially the same as in America. The lasrge numbers of Mecicans migrating to Ameriva is a fascor. Th availability of low-costs garments made for the American ,srket is another favtor.
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