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We see both trim fitting knee pants as well as very full-cut pants. This range was very wide. The London boy here has very wide-cut knee pants (figure 1). Full cuts seem common at mid-century sometimes with elaborate embroidery. They are are less common in the photographic record. Here the expanding number of portraits being taken was probably a factor. We notice trim fitting knee pants by the 1890s. Knee pants were cut to various degrees of fullness. Again the early knee pants could be cut very full. We see this primarily in England. We see far less of these full-cut knee pants in America. And we mostly see them in the 1860s and 70s. By the 1880s the trim fitting, knee-length pants were becoming standard.
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