The 1920s was a major turning point for boys' fashions. Short pants in Europe and knickers in America worn with knee length socks rapidly replaced knee length pants and long stockings.

The 1920s was not just any decade. Even those without any interest or knowledge of history have heard of the "Roaring 20s". It may have been the brashest, the loudest, and brighest decade at all. The images are numerous and often starteling: bath-tub gin, gangsters, fast cars, prosperity, short skirts, bobbed hair, modern art, the Charleston, and many more. In many ways our modern era was born in the 1920s. The catastrophe of the Great War gave it birth and a calamity of the Great Depression ended it. Within the brief 10 years many in Europe and America changed how they looked on themselves and the world. Fashions was only one of the many changes-- but in many ways the most observable.