Figure 1.--Short pants were commonly worn at many Scittish prep schools even when they were less common at state schools. |
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We note Scootish school boys wearing various types of trousers. This has included long pants, knickers, knee pants, short pants, and other types. Long and short pants have been especially important. And of course in Scotland some boys wore kilts as an altermative to trousers. We are not sure how coimmon this was, especially in the 19th century. The various types depened on chronological, age, sociasl class, school types and other factors. And some of these conventions varied over time. Long pants were the most important tyoe of trousers. They were commonly worn throughout the 19th century, although our informastion is limited. We see knee pants and knickers at the end of the 19th century century. Long pants were also very common in the 20th century, although in the first half of the century, short pants were common for boys and continued to be worn at some private schools into the late 20th century. For the most part these were the same styles as the boys wore normally, but the adoption of school uniforms meant that at some schools the types of trousers were specified by the school.
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