Figure 1.--This portrait shows an Hungarian family with grandnother we think about 1890. The children look to be about 10-13 years old. The girl with extrely long wears a light-colored dress girl w amazing hair. The boy wears vested lapel suit with knickers pants. The studii was Dunky in Kolozsvár/Miskolcz, at the time in Hungary. It is now in Romania.

We see Hungarian boys wearing the same basic types of suit pants as in the rest of Europe, especially Austria and Germany. The pants worn with the suits included knee breeches (18th century) and then became more diverse after the turn-of-the 19th century. Long pants became standard, first for boys, onlylater for adult me. Knee pants and knickers became common for boys after mid-century. Short pants became common in the 20th century, especially after World War I. Our Hungarian archive is limited so our assessment of suit pants is at this time still fragmentary. We mostly see Hungarian boys wearing ling pants suits, but as in other European counties we see shortened-length pants in the late-19th century. This was at first for younger boys, but eventually teen agers, especially younger teens, also wore the shortened-length pants. We are not sure at this time if knee pants or knickers were more common. In America, knee pants dominated, but in Europe the pants were more varied. Hungarian patterns were very similar to those in Germany. As in other European countries, after World War I we see short pants suits. The boys here are a good example (figure 1). In the post-World War II era, especilly after the 1960s, long pants became standard for all but the youngest boys. These are all trends that followed if not mirrored fashion tends in Austria and Germany, although the Communist take over after World War II affected fashion trends, primarily because Hungary like the rest of the Soviet Empire did not share in the Western European economic miracles.

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