Figure 1.--This American boy in a colorized photograph duriong the 1930s wears jeans rather than overalls. He is posing with the family's prize cow. The pink rose is a bit unususal for an American photograph. |
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Farm boys wore jeans in the early 30s, but jeans were less common in urban America. Even farm boys, however, began wearing jeams rather than the once pervasive overalls with the bibfronts. Adult farmers generally continued wearing overalls. Most boys wore knickers, especially hard wearing corderoy knickers. The Hollywood westerns began to chage this. Wersterns were tremendously popular in the movies. Most American boys went to the movies on saturday afternoon and Western shoot-them-ups were real favorites. Cowbous always wore jeans, usually cuffed and never overalls with the bid fronts. Even city boys in the 1930s began asking for jeand like their favorite movie cowboy wore.
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