Japanese Boys' Clothes: Types of Pants--Long


Figure 1.--We begin to note Japanese boys playing in jean longs during the mid-1980s. Japanese boys earlier played in jean shorts, bytmothers often did not approve of jean longs.

Japanese boys generally wore short pants, often even in Winter. After leaving primary school normally at agee 12, Japanese boys normally began wearing long pants. Teenagers did not normally wear shirt pants, even as casual wear. Japanese teen agers normally wore dressy pants, usually school uniform pants. Almost all Japanese junior and senior high schools require uniforms. Besides their school uniform pants, Japanese boys would wear slacks. Younger Japanese boys began to more commonly wear long pants in the 1980s. Only in the 1980s did Japanese boys begin to commonly wear jeans. We notice Japanese boys wearing jean shorts in the 1960s and 70s, but apparently Japanese mothers did not like the idea of jean long pants. We also notice boys wearing athletic training pants in the 1980s as shown in the photograph here (figure 1).






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