Figure 1.--
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Figure 1.-- |
Pants or trousers were often a device for deifferentiating boys wearing the same suit styles. Younger boys often wore short pants. Sometimes brothers might both wear shorts, but of different lengths. Often the the boys in short and long pants suits wore different styles of suits. In some fmilies the boys might have similar suits or suits of the same color, but one boy wearing shorts and tge other wearing knickers or long pants. The differentiation was not always an attempt at age differentiation. Some differences such as one boy wearing kneepants and the other knickers may not be attempts to differentiate, but due to some vagery of buying or making clothes.
American brothers: White short pants
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