Figure 1.--Here we seen a sGermanecondary school class in 1956. Many of the boys are wearing short pants and knee socks with jackets ans sweatrs. They look to be about 14-15 years of age. |
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The age of German boys wearing short pants to school has varied chronologically. This pertains to chronological prevalence of shorts as well as the age conventions associated with wearing them. We begin to see short pants in the early-20th century, but they were worn by yonger boys and no commonly to school. Knee pants were much more common at school until after World War I. Short pants were almmst universl for primary boys in the inter-War era. We see younger secondary boys also wearing shorts to school in this priod, including sailor suits and regular suits. Boys up to about 15 years of age wore short pants to school, although this varied from family to family. Some parents used knickers as both a seasonal garment and a transitional garment between short and long pants. Seasonality was another factor as to the age of boys wearing shorts. Aftr age 15 years shorts become less common. Boys conginued to be commonly worn after the War. In fact we see some older boys earing shorts in the 1940s after the War. We think many boys continued to wear clothes they had grow out of because of the difficult economic conditions, Many families coud not aford to buy new outfits for boys when at the time that just afording food was challenge. Older boys wore long pants to school. We see a major change after the mid-50s. We no longer see boys wearing shorts to secondary school. And by the 70s we see more boys even at the primary level wearing long pants, especilly during the winter.
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