Figure 1.-- Here we see a middle-class English boy dressed up in a blue suit jacket and grey short trousers for a family wedding. He wear grey school knee socks and and school sandals. The photograph is undated, but was probably taken about 1960.

Social class of course had a major impact on weddings. High society weddings would involve vert formal outfits, including very expensive wedding dresses and especially styled outfits for the children participating in the ceremony. We nore a wide varietyy of outfits worn by the boys involved in formal high-society weddings. We note kilts, sailor suits, and vatioys button-on outfits. Middle class and especually working-class families involved much more modest outfits. Some weddingls still might involve outfits for the boys such as kilts or sailor suits or junior Eton suits. Often in more modest weddings, the boys might just wear their suits or in some cases just white shirts and ties. Shirt pnts were common in the first half of the 0th century, but long pants became more common , especially after the 1960s, depending on the age of the boys.

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