German boys also mostly wore short pants with the knee socks during the 1920s-50s. Younger boys wore over the knee stockings during the winter and some older boys had long pants in the colder weather. Sailor suits continued popular, even for relatively older boys through the 1940s. Few schools had uniforms. As in France, styles changed substantially in the 1960s and most boys now wear jeans and other long pants.
Styles are now much more casual.
Many boys do not even have suits as there are so few occasions for wearing them. HBC at this time has very limited infornation on Hugarian boys' clothing. Hopefully Hungarian readers will assisst us us in describing Hungarian styles and fashion trends. Differences in dress among these groups, however, is much less pronounced than in Malaysia. Rural Irish boys in the conservative western counties still wore long flannel dresses as late as the era before the First World War.