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Before the 1940s, young boys and girls alike wore short dresses. In the US, during the 1940s and 1950s, boys were dressed like their fathers, which meant shirts and trousers and the same colors that their fathers wore. From the mid-1960s through the mid-1980s, the fashion for
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