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We came across this rather odd but interesting advertisement today in the Huntingdon, Pennyslvania, Daily News (November 16, 1945, page 10). The ad is for Clark's Funeral Home but it makes an appeal to nostalgia for the days when adolescent boys in their middle teen years had the thrill of being allowed to discard their knee pants, long stockings, and high buttoned shoes for long trousers and socks--the transition from boyhood to manhood. Here is the text, "Memory Lane. Long Trousers. Remember when boys wore knee pants, high buttoned shooes and long stockings? The thrill of adolsecence was
changing to long trousers and socks. Today's styles for boys do not emphasize this change, but rob them of this milestone in their growth to manhood. Remember? Clark's funeral Home. Reverence and Consideration. Mount Union." Here the author when he uses theterm knee pants was probably using it as a generic term to include knickes as well, although high-button shoes were mostly worn with knee pnts.
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