Figure 1.--Thus unidentified German boy in the 1970s wears bib-frontplay shorts in his back yard. He looks to be about 5 years old. Click on the image to see the boy the following year when he began school. |
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A popular type of short pants for younger boys, especially pre-school boys is bib-front shorts. They were a variant od suspender and H-bar shorts. Both were more popular in Germany than bib-feint shorts. The bib provided the same function as suspenders and H-bar supports--to support the pants. Bib-front [ants, usually shots, are hust H-bar shorts with the bittom of the 'h' filled in. Boys do not have defined hips and thus need suspenders or belts to keep their pants up. Button-on shorts were another methods, Of these different alternatives, bib-front shorts seem the least common in Germany for some reason. They had the added functionality of protecting the short or blouse the boy was wearing. We see some examples, but not very many. We do not have enough images to develop any trends and conventions yet. We suspect tht by the 1870s the conventions that existed among different European countries as to bib-front shorts began to disappear.
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