Figure 1.--The boy here in the early 1940s wears suspender shorts. He looks to be about 11 year old. Note that his uspender straps button inside the waistline of his short pants. |
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We have very limited information on the types of short pans worn by Italian boys. We have relatively few images in the HBC archive and little written informtion. We note that Italy was one of the countries in which suspender shorts were commonly worn. The boy here in the early 1940s wears suspender shorts. He looks to be about 11 year old. Note that his uspender straps button inside the waistline of his short pants (figure 1). We note that brief-cut continental shorts became popular after World war II, but the term was not used to descibed them. Sport shorts began to be popular in the 1970s.
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