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Major changes followed the Paris Student riots in 1968.
Belgium boys today dress virtually indistinguisably from boys in France, Germay, Spain, Italy, Britain, and the United States. The pan-European boys' fashions appears to have swept even traditional Belgium. Boys wear jeans, large 't' shirts, sweat shirts, and tennis shoes. Distinctive French outfits are a thing of the past. Baseball caps are less popular in France than in America, but that is one of the few differences.
We see many modern trends becoming estnlished in Belgium by the 1970s. We see the beginnng of the pan-European styles that would dominate children's clothing throughout Europe by the end of the century. As in other countries, boys were increasingly wearing casual clothing. We see fewer boys wearing suits. Swaters were very popular. Many boys evem younger boys were wearing long pants. The situation was rather mixed. We see both shorts and long pants with long pants gradually becoming more common. Jeans in particular became increasingly popular in the 1970s. Belgium generally was more traditional than other European countries. Some boys still wore short pants suits, increasingly younger boys, and knee socks in the 1970s because their parents insisted. This varied widely from family to family. In much of the rest of Europe, shorts were increasingly becoming summer ok=play and casul wear. We still see some Belgian boys dessing up in more formal dress shorts as well as wearing shots even in the Fall after the weather began turning cooler. A few private schools had short pants uniforms. Incereasingly boys, however, wanted to wear jeans and other long pants.
Short pants were still worn, but increasingly as casual clothes for smmerwear. Brighter colored clothes become increasdingly popular.
Belgium boys in the 1990s dressed virtually indistinguisably from boys in France, Germay, Spain, Italy, Britain, and the United States. Boys wear jeans, large "t" shirts, sweat shirts, and tennis shoes. Distinctive French outfits are a thing of the past. Baseball caps are less popular in France than in America, but that
is one of the few differences.
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