Figure 1.--Dutch boys in the 1970s wore very short pants--mostly during the summer. Few boys wore kneesocks. Notice the shirt made without a tail and buttoned at the waist.
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Figure 1.--Dutch boys in the 1970s wore very short pants--mostly during the summer. Few boys wore kneesocks. Notice the shirt made without a tail and buttoned at the waist. |
Dutch mail order catalogs offer a very useful time line on changing fashion trends. These catalogs show a some important trends in the Netherlands. Boys except the very youngest are no longer wearing short pants to dress wear. Shorts were increasingly becoming casual wear. The shorts that boys do wear, mostly during the summer, are quite short and often very colorful.
Catalogs in 1972 show boys weraing shirts without tails that buttoned at the waist. They were called shirt-jacks in America, but were not very popular. Boys wear both short and long pants--often in bright colors. The shorts tended to be cut very short. Boys mostlt wore ankle socks. Kneesocks were no longer common.
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