Figure 1.--This scene from a calendarm probably in the 1930s shows children in a play room looking out the window to create a spring scene.< /i> |
Some clothing styles are very seasonal in nature. Short pants are today mostly associayed with casual warm weather wear, although they were once worn by boys year round, especially in Europe. Short sleeves and "T"shirts are also common summer styles. Mothers would begin pulling out sweaters after the weather began turing chilly in the fall. Of course heavy coats are mostly asociated with cold winter weather.
The arrival of spring each year has been celebrated with the purchase of a new dress suit for Easter. Suits are now much less cimmonly worn than in the past, but new outdits are still commonly purchased inj the spring.
Short pants are today mostly associayed with casual warm weather wear, although they were once worn by boys year round, especially in Europe. Short sleeves and "T"shirts are also common summer styles. The kneesocks which were omce commonly worn with short pants year round became more common in the fall and winter.
Mothers would begin pulling out sweaters after the weather began turing chilly in the fall. Of course heavy coats are mostly asociated with cold winter weather.
Of course heavy coats are mostly asociated with cold winter weather. Other winter styles are mittens, mufflers, caps with ear flaps.
Navigate the Boys' Historical Clothing Web Site:
[Introduction]
[Activities]
[Bibliographies]
[Biographies]
[Chronology]
[Clothing styles]
[Countries]
[Essay]
[Literary]
[Boys' Clothing Home]