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Breeching (boys)
Breeching was the occasion when a small boy was first dressed in breeches or trousers. From the mid-16th century〔Melanie Scheussler suggests a date of post-1540 for England, France, and the Low Countries; see Scheussler, "'She Hath Over Grown All that She Ever Hath': Children's Clothing in the Lisle Letters, 1533–40", in Netherton, Robin, and Gale R. Owen-Crocker, editors, ''Medieval Clothing and Textiles'', Volume 3, p. 185. Before roughly this date various styles of long robes were in any case commonly worn by adult males of various sorts, so boys wearing them could probably not be said to form a distinct phenomenon.〕 until the late 19th or early 20th century, young boys in the Western world were unbreeched and wore gowns or dresses until an age that varied between two and eight.〔Baumgarten, Linda: ''What Clothes Reveal: The Language of Clothing in Colonial and Federal America'', p. 166〕 Breeching was an important rite of passage in the life of a boy, looked forward to with much excitement. It often marked the point at which the father became more involved with the raising of a boy.〔Baumgarten, p. 168〕
==Reasons==
The main reason for keeping boys in dresses was toilet training, or the lack thereof.〔("Boy's Dress", V&A Museum of childhood, accessed February 8, 2012 )〕 The change was probably made once boys had reached the age when they could easily undo the rather complicated fastenings of many Early Modern breeches and trousers. Dresses were also easier to make with room for future growth, in an age when clothes were much more expensive than now for all classes. The "age of reason" was generally considered to be about seven, and breeching corresponded roughly with that age for much of the period. For working-class children, about whom we know even less than their better-off contemporaries, it may well have marked the start of a working life. The debate between his parents over the breeching of the hero of ''Tristram Shandy'' (1761) suggests that the timing of the event could be rather arbitrary; in this case it is his father who suggests the time has arrived.〔The episode takes up Chapters 48–53 of Book 3 (though it is neither as long nor as conclusive as that might suggest), which was published in 1761 (Gutenberg project text (large file) )〕 The 17th-century French cleric and memoirist François-Timoléon de Choisy is supposed to have been dressed in girl's clothes until he was eighteen.
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