Figure 1.--This Dutch boy in 1960 wears short pants with a wide cuff. This style was not common, most shorts were worn without cuffs.
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Figure 1.--This Dutch boy in 1960 wears short pants with a wide cuff. This style was not common, most shorts were worn without cuffs. |
Cuffs were not common until the 1990s. I have noted Boys wearing cuffed shorts before the 1990s. but they were not very common. Cuffs had the practical advantage on boys' long pants in that they could be let out as a boy grew. This appears to have been the reason for cuffs, for example, on German lederhosen. Cuffs on short pants, however, do not seem to be practical. The length of shopts or highly influenced by fashion and thus cuffs were less useful. They appear to have primarily been a stylistic element than a practical feature. This did become a popular style in the early 1990s, primarily on shorts worn by younger boys for dressier occasions and not casual styled shorts.
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