When did men stop wearing short pants?

In the United States up until the ’50s, the unspoken rule of etiquette was that a grown man should not show himself in public while wearing short pants. Some towns looked at this as a matter of common decency and went so far as to ban the wearing of shorts. The city of Honesdale, PA., for instance, banned them in 1938.

Did people wear shorts in the early 1900s?

Europe and America In much of Europe and the Americas during the 19th and early 20th centuries, shorts were worn as outerwear only by young boys until they reached a certain height or maturity.

What were shorts like in the 70s and early 80s?

In the 70’s & early 80’s the boys/guys shorts were just as short as the girls were or damn close to it. It was the style then & boys weren’t so embarrassed about wearing them. The swimming trucks also were what they would more-so what they call Speedos nowadays.

Did men’s pants get shorter in the 1970s?

As the 1970s came to an end, short styles for men became more modest, hearkening back to the 1950s and 1960s short lengths. But for that one brief, shining moment in time…the 1970s…the shortness of men’s pants rivaled that of women. What we have remaining is a lot of humorous photographs of seventies dudes comfortably showing way too much thigh.

Do boys wear shorts that are real shorts?

And it wasn’t just “boys” …men also wore shorts that were real shorts. Watch old NBA vids and you’ll see basketball shorts that were well north of the knee caps and a whole lot more form-fitting. Ditto tennis and just about any sport where the uniform was a pair of shorts.

When did boys start wearing long pants to school?

When I started school in the 1960s it was just the normal thing and going into long pants a year or two before moving to secondary school (age 11 or 12). Some grammar schools specified short pants as part of the uniform for younger boys as do some prep schools now.

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