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The types of pants worn by Czech boys in Bohemia seems similar to those worn by other European boys, at least boys in the urban centers. The urban population mostly wore knee pants as in the rest of Europe (18th century). There were no decicated children;s clothing at the time. Boys wiore smaller versions of their father's outfits. Dedicated boys' outfits appeared at the turn-of-the 19th century. The first such garment was the skeleton suit (1800). It was done with long pants at a time that men were still commonly wearing knee breeches. It would some time before men, at leasft men of his social stnding began wearing long pants. The working class began the trabsitiin earlier. They were called derisively the san-cullotes (wihout short pants meaning knee breeches) in France. The same pattern existed in Vienna an cities in the Austrian Empire. Men of status had began shiting to long pants (1820s). This all began to change at mid-century. We begin to see yonger boys wearing shortenened length pants. Most boy continued wearing long pants into the 1870s. The younger boy here is a good example (figure 1). Shortened-length pants gradually became more prevalent. Only in the late-19th century do they become more widely worn-both knee pants and knickers. The boys on the previous page are wearing knickers, we think in the 1890s. By the turn-of the 20th century, they were standard boy's wear. We are less sure about the rural peasantry. Bohemia is where the Czech population was centered and was one of the most developed areas of the Austrian Empire. Much of the Empire's industry was located in Bohemia. Other areas of the Empire were largely agricultural with large peasant population with destive clothing syles. Unlike the urban population, there were no sharp destinctions between juvenile and adult dress.
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