Figure 1.-- The portrait is interesting in that all the boys are wearing the same identical suits, or virtually all. The jackets vary slightly, but all the boys wear long trousers with very wide cuffs. This was not that common at prep schools at the time. |
The uniform at this prep school was long trouser suits. At the time, kneepants were commonly worn by English boys this age. The uniform at many public schools (private secondary schools) was commoknly knickers for the younger boys although long pants uniforms were common. The older boys at public schools at this time almost always wore long trousers. We do not have a lot of images of turn of the century prep schools, but the ones that we do have suggest that long trouserrs were not particularly common as a prep school uniform garmnt. Also notable are the very large trouser cuffs. I forget now what the English term is.
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