Figure 1.--Here we see three German boys in 1972. One boy wears print long pants. His two friends wear short pants. The fashion during the 70s was short cut short pants, usually worn as casual clothes during the summer. The boys look to be 11-12 years old.

German boys by the 1970s were wearing much less destinctive than had been the case earlier. Clothing in Germany as in the rest of Europe was beginning to make the transition to a kind of pan-European fashion with styles ironically strongly influenced by American fashions. We see many more boys wearing long pants in Germany, even younger boys. Suits were less commonly worn, but were mostly made with long pants except for very young boys. We no longer see boys wearing short pants during cold winter weather. We see boys mostly wearing long pants to school. Teenagers were commonly wearing jeans. Lederhosen were rarely wirn by teenagers. Boys wore a variety of long pants. Prints and stripes were considered stylish. We do see mostly pre-teen boys commonly wearing short pants during the summer. Shorts were very common for play or casualwear. The shorts that wee worn tended to be cut very short, a style popular throughout Europe. We note very kinds of short pants, including jean shorts. Even boys that commonly wore shorts during the summer would often put on long pants when dressing up. We see some boys wearing travht, both short and knicker-length Lederhosen.

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