Figure 1.--Here we see a JC Penney catalog item offering tank tops and camp shorts. We do not have the date of this catalog, but would guess the 1970s. |
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Catalogs and advertisements show the different styles of pants worn by American boys including knee pants, knickers, long pants, short pants, and other. Our information on the 19th century is limited, but by the late-19th century there is an increasing anount of store and mailorder catalogs as well as some adverisements. Catalog and adverisements throughout the 20th century provide a wealth of information. They not only provide an indicator of popular styles but also a great of detailed information on material, colors, and different stylistic elements. With the 21st cebtury online catalogs become imprtant. Pants at the turn of the 20th century were often purchased as suits or to be worn with suit jackets. Gradually in the 20th century it became more common to purchase pants separately. As the century progressed increasingly casual styles became popular. There are many different tupes of pants. The major way pants are categirized, espeially boys' pants, is by length.
There were a variery of other pants types of pants. One of those are clam diggers or capri pants. Other terms included beach combersand deck pants. Actually they were a type of knee pants. They were cut at calf level like early knee pants. They were done in various colors, red and white were common. We mostly see these in the 1960s. They were not very popular with boys, but many girls did wear them. We note an unidentified mail order pages for casul summer pants which offered beach comnber/deck pants along with other types of casual summer pants, inckudung long and short pants, and 'skin diver' swim briefs. We think it is a Sears catalog during to the early-60s. Hopefully we will be finally able to date it.
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