Figure 1.--This French girl in 1920 wears leggings with her stylish "helmet" hat and coat. We wonder if the hat was not inspired by World War II helmets.
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Figure 1.--This French girl in 1920 wears leggings with her stylish "helmet" hat and coat. We wonder if the hat was not inspired by World War II helmets. |
One source tells us that, unlike America, leggings were never worn by girls in France, but we note quite a few images of French girls wearing leggings. In fact we have found more images of girls wearing leggings than boys. we can not be sure, however, if this reflects the actual tendency of French boys and girls to wear leggings. We have few details, but the available images suggesy that the leggings for boys and girls were identical. We are not sure about the chronolgy involved. We note that both boys and girls were wearing leggings at the tirn of the 20th century. We are not sure if there were differences in how commonly boys and girls wore them or at what age they wore them..
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