Figure 1.--This Belgian boy wears a natty very long leg pair of knickers with his First Communion suit. They almost look like long pants. The image is undated, but we would guess about 1935-39. Short pants suits were more common for Belgian boys at the time. |
We have mostly noted Belgian boys wearing kneepants and short pants suits for their First Communion. A few boys wore kncker suits, but this wa less common as knickers were seen as a style for older boys. The boy here wears a natty very long leg pair of knickers with his First Communion suit. They almost look like long pants. The image is undated, but we would guess about 1935-39. Short pants suits were more common for Belgian boys at the time.
After World War II, especially in the 1960s and evn more so the 1970s, more Belgian boys began wearing long pants suits for First Communion.
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