Pants Getting Shorter, Up to the Knees

Paris, France, 1920
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TROUSERS GOING UP; MAY REACH KNEES

Paris Idea Already Calls for Women's Silk Stockings.

PARIS, France, May 20 – Andre de Fouquieres, long recognized as the king of Paris society, appeared the other day in the shortest pair of pants ever seen on a grown-up.

They fell three inches below the knees, with nice double creases, showing "perfect" silk calves, and incidentally revealing that the wearer is among the men who have recently insisted upon buying women's silk stockings.

M. de Fouquieres' example is taken as a prelude to a general movement for shortening trousers, a movement aided by the shortage of cloth. It will be no surprise if ultimately Frenchmen will wear them about the same length as women's skirts, just to the knees.

--The Saturday Blade, Chicago, May 22, 1920.