Figure 1.--These boys in a 1965 advertisement model tights. One boy wears black tights, the other bright green tights.
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Figure 1.--These boys in a 1965 advertisement model tights. One boy wears black tights, the other bright green tights. |
Green like blue comes in many shades. While the darrker muted colors might be acceptable to boys, many would object to the brighter shades. Such conventions, however, were less pronounced when tights first appeared for children in the late 1950s. Thus during the 1960s boys might wear brighter colored tights than is the case today. It is unclear what boys might have worn with bight green tights. HBC speculates that short pants were less less likely to be worn with the brighter than the more muted colors of tights.
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