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Teenagers for most of the 19th century mostly wore long pants suits in the 19th century. This changed dramatically in the late-19th century. Knee pants became much more common for boys in the 80s, but almost entirely pre-teen boys. This changed deamtically in the 1890s. Not only do knee pants become almost universal for boys, at least in the cities, but we begin to see teenagers wearing knee pants for the first time. While suits with shortened-length pants were worn by boys for something like a century, but teenagers 15-years and older wore knee pants and knickers for only a relatively brief pants of that period. A the turn-of-the-20 century we see teen agers commonly wearing knee pants. Unlike the youngder boys, knee pants were not universal for older teens, but we see quite old boys wearing knee pants. Age 15 appears to have been a kind of dividing point. We see many 15-year olds wearing knee pants in the 1900s and to a lesser extent knickers in the 1910s, but far fewer older boys. This is not to say that knee pnts were rare for 16-year olds, but they were much less common than for 15-year olds. Here we are talking bout boys still in school. And there was also a rural/urban dibude. Boys quiting school and working most wore long onts by ge 15 years. Knickers continued to be prevalent in the 2920s, but we see mny more 15-year olds wearing long psnts and by the 1930s, long pznts weee almost universal for 15 year olds. The basic change for the rest of the century is that suits gradually become less and less common for boys of ll ages.
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