Figure 1.--Here we see two unidentifiedAmerican siblings about 1910. Thy look to be about 3-5 years old. The boy wears a traditionally styled, long oants sailor suit. The girl wears an overcoat over what looks like a white dress and black long stockings.

The type of pants boys wore in the late-19th and early-20th century was commonly age related. Younger boys wore shortened-length pants while older boys wore long pants. Age seems to have been less a factor for sailor suit pants. Of course sailor suits were generally worn by younger boys. But for several decades, as knee pant became standard, sailor suits were the only outfits which younger boys commonly wore with long pants. We rarely elmentary age boys wearing long pants in the late-19th and early-20th century. The one major exception was the sailor suit. Most boys wore sailor suits with shortened-length pants, but we do sequite a number of boys wearing long pants with sailor suits. Many of the long pants suits seem rather dressy suits, in contrast to nplay suits or even school wear suits. We see a lot of sailor suits at schools in the late-19th and early-20th century, but very few of thise suits were long pants suits. Older boys tended to wear long pants, but few oldr boys wore sailor suits.

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