Figure 1.--Younger Russian boys commonly wear tights to school during the winter. We also see boys wearing tights at home after school, much like American boys wear pajamas. A Canadian reader writes, "I believe that the older boy at the left is wearing what we formerly called "slacks" or "skipants". They were used for skiing. They look too large and baggy for tights. For sure, the boy at the right is wearing tights." |
Younger Russian boys commonly wear tights to school during the winter. We also see boys wearing tights at home after school, much like American boys wear pajamas. This is a modern image from a Russian home of two brothers playing in the living room of their home. One boy seems to be wearing ski pajams, the other boys tights. It is a modern image we believe was taken in 2005. we assume that the children come from a middle-class family probably in Moscow. There appears to be social class factors involved concerning tights in Russia.
Younger Russian boys commonly wear tights to school during the winter. We also see boys wearing tights at home after school, much like American boys wear pajamas. This is a modern image from a Russian home of two brothers playing in the living room of their home. It is a modern image we believe was taken in 2005. we assume that the children come from a middle-class family probably in Moscow. There appears to be social class factors involved concerning tights in Russia.
This is a modern image from a Russian home of two brothers playing in the living room of their home. It is a modern image we believe was taken in 2005. we assume that the children come from a middle-class family probably in Moscow. There appears to be social class factors involved concerning tights in Russia.
A Canadian reader writes, "I believe that the older boy at the left is wearing what we formerly called "slacks" or "skipants". They were used for skiing. They look too large and baggy for tights. For sure, the boy at the right is wearing tights." A reader also rights, "In looking more deeply, I find that the older boy is wearing something like the tighter pajamas worn in the 1970s. I believe that they were called ski pants in America. There was two parts the same color and the top was like a tee-shirt. Material was heavier than a
cotton pajama. Here I think the pants are without feet. In other words, this underclothing was a mix between a pajama and a longjohn. thickier than tights bit tinner than longjohn. Those were used like tights under pants like tights." A Russian reader writes, "Yes, that Canadian contributor is right. These pants in Russian are called "treniki" (trainer pants), "sportivnye shtany" (sport-pants) or "lyzhnye shtany" (ski-pants). They are made without without feet, with "shtripki" (from German "striphen", footstraps) And, yes, older boys wear such pants like younger boys wear tights. By the way, one time I've seen a physical training lesson in a first form of school (children 7 yerars old) where several boys and girls trained in tights and T-shirts (normally in schools on physical training lessons children wear trainers and T-shirts). I have never seen older children in such outfit in school. Nevertheless, mothers consider tights more comfortable, than trainers and socks, and older boys vice versa."
A reader writes, "There does not seemto be any prejudice about tights with or without feet. I wonder if this has something to do with the popularity of classical dance in Russia. A boy will not feel a sissy if he is wearing tights for practice. In the United States and canada, it seems that the fact that tights are for girls "only" has an effet on the motivation for boys to learn dance. Any clothing needs to be "natural" for the wearer and if the boy in a period of his life when he is so much concerned with his gender identity feels ostracized, it will be enough for him to give up classical dance which is so much a nice contribution for assessing "culture" in a given society. Both boys and girls wore long stockings, but in Britain, America, and many other countries only girls wore tights when they first appeared in the late 1950s."
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