Figure 1.--This familt snapshot shows a brother and sister playing in the backyard. They look to be about 6-8 years old. The girl is wearing play clothes. Her broher seems more dressed up white a white dress shirt abd shiortalls. The photograph is undated, but we would guess it was taken about 1970, prhaps the early-70s.

Another popular style of short pants was shortalls. They appear to have developd from the overalls that boys began earing in the early-20th century. The shortalls that appearing in the 1920s, but only became popular in the late-1950s and early-60s, however, were not made of denim and did not have bib fronts. Shortalls were destinctive. in that there there were front and back pannels joined at the shoulders with only a open area for the head. One side often had a shoulder button to fasten the front and back pannel together. A major differentce was that bib-front shorts did not have the material back like shortalls. The bib only covered the front, not the back. The back only had crossed straps. Shortalls in contrast had a fabric back just like the front. They different somewhat in that some shortalls have fronts that look more like bib-front shorts than shortalls many modern shortalls are done more like bib-front shorts. But porper shortalls had a solid pannel of material that went over the shouders and not straps. The shoulder connections varied sonmehat. Some were more narrow than others, giving somewht the look of straps.

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