Wearing long pants in the winter is standard practice for most of us. But for young children in the royal family, it's a major faux pas.
As People explains, it's a British tradition for upper-class boys to wear shorts with knee socks, rather than pants, during the winter. When the boys turn 8, they can wear pants (or trousers, as the British call them). "It is considered very suburban for a little boy to be in long trousers when he is just a little boy," Ingrid Seward, editor-in-chief of Majesty magazine, said to People. The tradition has been ongoing for years; Prince William and Prince Harry, too, wore shorts year-round in their younger days.
