Lassie Come Home: Costuming--Pants/Trousers


Figure 1.--Here Joe is riding bikes with Elizabeth. It is Summer and now Joe's father is working for the Duke of Rudling. Joe has a new white shirt and bike! Trousers still the same Now worn for at least two years! Made em hard wearing then!

Joe wore short pants in the film, or as he and Roddy would have called them, short trousers. They appear to have been wool shorts with a pattern as they were suit pants. He wears the same shorts both during the Winter and Summer, no matter what the weather. He does not seem to have a pair of leisure shorts. Here Joe is riding bikes with Elizabeth (figure 1). It is Summer and now Joe's father is working for the Duke of Rudling. Joe has a new white shirt and bike! Trousers still the same Now worn for at least two years! Made em hard wearing then! Boys commonly wore the shorts from older suits for play. I think this may have been common in the 1920s, but trends were beginning to change by the 1930s. Perhaps this was less common in more conservative Yorkshire.










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