穿褲禮

穿褲禮指男孩幼年時首次穿褲的儀式。從16世紀中期^[1] 至20世紀初，西方的男童在幼年時(2歲左右-8歲左右)^[2] 通常穿着長袍或連衣裙，直到長大後才穿褲。穿褲禮是男童人生中重要的慶祝儀式。這意味着父親在撫養孩子方面會更多的參與。^[3]

慶祝

在19世紀，男童在穿褲後，通常會拍照留念，通常是跟他的父親合影。

^ 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.
^ Baumgarten, Linda: What Clothes Reveal: The Language of Clothing in Colonial and Federal America, p. 166
^ Baumgarten, p. 168