Figure 1.--The most destinctive garment worn by thr VNJ boys are the short balck short pants. Whrn the VNJ was founded, short pants were common among youth groups. The VNJ has maintained their uniform unchanged. Most other groups have either droppedshorts are adopted longer styles.

The VNJ short trousers are invariably black (as with the Hitlerjugend), which sets the VNJ apart from both Flemish and Francophone mainstream Scouts. They are made of ordinary trouser material. (It is the mainstream Francophone scouts who most often wear corduroy shorts, usually in dark blue.) They so noticeably remain short shorts, in defiance of recent fashion, that I feel sure their uniforms must be centrally supplied - rather than obtained by the boys' mothers locally according to a general guideline, as would normally be the case for mainstream scouts.