Figure 1.--This postcard has a Dutch script, Hartelijke Gefeliciteerd", and was used in 1920, but it was probably made in France--note the Ela trademark. Thus it may reflect idealized French rather than Dutch styles. (HBC is not sure how sophisticated the marketing program of the companies was in terms of directing specific images to certain countries.) Even so, it is an indication that even younger boys were still weasring longer-cut shorts in 1920. |
Most Dutch boys wore short pants from the 1920s through the 1950s. Kneepants disappered after the earkly 1920s. The original short pants were as long as kneepants. Some shorter styles were worn by younger boys, we believe beginning in the 1920s. The longer style shorts were still common, even for younger boys in the early 1920s. Certainly some younger French boys were wearing shorter shorts by the mid 1920s, we believe the same occurred in the Netherlands. Most older boys, however, wore longer shorts, although by the end of the decade theybwere above the knee.
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