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Post by bravomailer on Aug 1, 2018 22:50:22 GMT
One clothing item of note that you'll see in classic films is the wearing of knickerbockers by young boys/youths. It was only when they became young men (approximately at puberty or shortly thereafter) that the knickerbockers were traded in for long pants. Sort of a rite of passage, as it were. The rite of passage is poignantly depicted in Titanic – the one with Clifton Webb and Barbara Stanwyck. Having given up his seat in a lifeboat, their son stands beside Webb as the ship is about to go down and says, "Look father, I'm wearing long pants." |
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