My dad was raised in the South in the 40s. He wasn’t allowed to wear long pants until he was a teenager, but can’t remember what they wore in the winter.
What did boys wear in the winter when/where they weren’t allowed to wear long pants?
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My dad swears that only teens and older were allowed to wear long pants, and a few articles bear out that while this was changing throughout the 40s, it was still a thing in a lot of places: https://www.histclo.com/style/pants/chron/20/pc20d40.html
Just a guess but the British royal family doesn't put little boys in pants either so maybe this is one of those ** genteel ** southern nods to old European Aristocrat displays of wealth.
That sounds pretty likely.
You may like to know that gentile means “not Jewish” and genteel means “fancy manners.”
Ahhh autocorrect is correcting my typos in the wrong direction. Please forgive my dyslexic ass for my decent ideas that usually come wrapped in shitty editorial skills.
I try to stay on the kinder side of the line between only correcting people when it makes a difference in meaning vs becoming a “well ackshually” person. :)