Figure 1.--Here we see an inidentified English family in 1962. There are three children, two boys and a girl. They look like they are dressed for Easter, but that is only a guess. The girl wears a hat, jacket, and pleated skirt. The boys wear identical short pants suits. English boys through the 1950s commonly had suits. This became less common in the 1960s. Suits became much less common in the 1960s as boys clothing became more casual.

Here we see an inidentified English family in 1962. There are three children, two boys and a girl. They look like they are dressed for Easter, but a note with the photograph describes it as a summer suit. So while this may be Easter clothes, the portrait was apparently taken during the summer. The girl wears a hat, jacket, and pleated skirt. The boys wear identical short pants suits. English boys through the 1950s commonly had suits. This became less common in the 1960s. Suits became much less common in the 1960s as boys clothing became more casual. Many of the boys we see wearing suits are actually wearing school uniforms. The suits the boys wear here may be specially purchased suits, but they look like the grey suits worn at many private schools. The material looks like Terelyn rather than the flannel that was so common earlier. These schools often had blazers. But many had grey suits rather than blazers. Some schools had both. The boys do not wear school caps or ties. The older boy on the left is 13 years old and is wearing school knee socks as well as school sandals. His younger brother wears patterened-top knee socks with shoes. These socks were not normally worn at private schools.

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