Figure 1.--Here we see a younger boy wearing a bright red shirt with blue bib-front shorts. The girl wears a bib-front skirt. Note the boy wears socks while the girl wears long stockings. We are not sure about the date, but it may have been 1945.

We note a range of knee pants, short pants, knickers, and long pants depicted in Russian fashion magazines over time. The mix varied over time, generally following Western fashion conventions. We do not know a great deal about the Tsarist era. We note both knee pants and long pants. The idea of fashion was questioned after the Revolution and the 1920s seems to be a period that was not influenced by Western styles. Soviet fashion publications when they first appeared in ththe 1930s generally depicted short pants for younger boys. This is a little surprising given the climate, but the both boys and girls wore long stockings during the cold weather. We note bib-front shorts in the 1940s. Shorts were depicted for younger boys to wear year-round. Older boys are depicted as wearing knickers, but knickers do not seem very common in the photographic record. Short pants were still common in the 1940s and 50s after World War II. As in the West we see more long pants by the 1960s. Jeans in particular became very popular. And we see stylistic ganges like flares. As in the Wesrt, short pants by the 1980s had become a casual warm weather style.

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