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# A Snowy Day, Ronald Lampitt
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/snezhnyi-den-ronald-lampitt/
- Published: 2020-12-14T08:26:14.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:41:49.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Aristocracy, Art, Observations, Mores, Education, Ethnography

A snowy day, Ronald Lampitt. One can go endlessly goose-pimpled watching Englishmen, certain continental Europeans and Americans stroll about in shorts in winter. Some will write it off as plain folly, others will recall ancient traditions, still others will put the wardrobe at odds with the weather down to good hardening from childhood. Indeed, in the history of English dress shorts appear as an important boyish item as early as the 16th century and are bound up with the age-ranking of garments: in infancy and toddlerhood boys were dressed in shirt-frocks, in childhood and the adolescent and youthful years in shorts or breeches, and the wearing of trousers signified that the boy had become a young man. The influence of old aristocratic mores can be traced in school uniform, and not only that of the most elite institutions, even today. So if you meet a man with bare shanks in winter, he is not necessarily a simpleton or a freak with disordered thermoregulation; it may be a long-standing habit, instilled from an early age and having bare historical roots