Figure 1.--Here we see four siblings, e think in the 1910s. Rge chikdren look to be about 5-14 years old. It was a postcard-back studio portrait. The boys wear summer-wight suits with Norfolk styling and knee pants..

We note Australian boys swdearuing ling pangts, knee pants and shirt oamts. We have not yet notuced knickers, although our archive is still far too limited to make any valid assessments. We have very little information at this time on 19th century suits pants. We believe that they were basically the same as in England which by the late-19th century were mostly knee pants or knickers and long pants or the older boys. By the turn of the 20th century we mostly see knee pants, but our archive is still very limited. We no longer see knickers. Knee psnts grduslly gave way to short pants in the 1910s and became standard after World War I. And were worn by both primary school boys as well as many teenagers. This continued until after World War II when boys began wearing long pants suits, especially by the 1960s. Short psnts continued to be worn in chool uniform suits. At the same time suits in general were bring worn less and less by boys.

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