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Here's a nice historical photo of young Warren Sonneman (at the age of 8 years) with his prize Easter basket. He seems quite proud of it.
The scene was the annual Easter egg roll at the White House (April 2, 1923) during the presidency of Warren Harding. The boy is wearing his nice Easter tweed suit--single breasted with leather buttons down the front and on his breast pocket. It looks to be a Norfolk jacket. He is wearing a formal shirt, probably with a detachable collar, and tie. I think that he is wearing knee pants, but there appear to be no ornamental buttons at the leg hem. Knee pants were still worn in the early 1920s, but were rapidly going out of style. He wears the customary long black stockings.
A HBC reader asks, "Did boys still
wear knee pants in 1923? I thought short pants had more or less
replaced knee pants by then. Of course I realize there could be some
overlap. But knee pants usually have ornamental buttons, and this
boy's pants don't seem to have these. Perhaps the point is too
technical to worry about. And the issue becomes a bit more complicated
when we realize that in Canada, short pants were referred to as "knee
pants". The Canadians, I guess, just made little distinction between
short pants and knee pants in the 1930s and 1940s." HBC sees European boys wearing knee pants into the 30s. I think
knee pants were still sold in America during the early 20s.
Now just when they finally disappeared I'm not sure, but I
think they were still around in 1923.
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