Figure 1.--Dutch boys by the 1960s were wearing shorter cut shorts, increasingly as casual wear.
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Figure 1.--Dutch boys by the 1960s were wearing shorter cut shorts, increasingly as casual wear. |
There of course have been styling changes over time. The most obvious here is the how the length of the shorts has changed over time. Boys tended to wear knee length shorts through the 1940s. Younger boys might wear shorter shorts. There were also some specialized styles for younger boys. The length of the shorts began to get shorter in the 1950s and by the 1960s, shorter length short pants were quite common. In the 1970s boys might wear quite short shorts--although they were by then not commonly worn with suits for dressing up. The new shorter length was especially popular for the casual shorts that were becoming common during the warm summer months. A new fashion of longer shorts became popular during the 1990s.
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