Figure 1.-- Here we see a father or gandfather taking his sons into New York City to sse some of the sites in 1966. The boys are wearing bkazers rather than suits. The younger boy wears an Eton bkazer. The older boy wears a plaid standard lapel jacket. The boys look to be about 5-8 years old.

We see American boys wearing both Eton and lapel suit jackets with short pants durinhg the 1960s. Eton short pants suits were very common for pre-school boys and also worn by the younger primary boys to some extent. The lapel jacket short pants suits were no longer very common, by mid-decade. We see some examples, but not very many, especially by the end of the decade. What we see more commonly were boys wearing blazers with short pants. The boy here is a good example (figure 1). Blue blazers were the most common, but we also see red blazers and oyher colors. This was still fairly common for boys under abour 10 years of age. Sports jackets were still worn in the 1960s. These were an altenative to more formal suits. Sports jackets had louder patterns than suit jackerts and did not have matching pants. This was the last decade that these jackets were very common. The siappearnce of sport jackets was part of the declining popularity of suits and increasing informality of dress. We rearely see them being worn with short pants. An exception were Madras jackets, a very popoular style in the 1960s. This was a popular preppy style. We also notice plaid jackets.

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