Figure 1.--Here is a Winter 1968 photograph playing in the snow. That's me on the sledge. My brothers and I were the ones wearing shorts. |
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The seasons were of course a factor in how we dressed. We had seasonal clothing for both warm Summer weather and cold Winter weather. We commonly wore shorts and "T"-shirts or polo-type shirts during the Summer, often with sandals. You can see our Summer clothing in the holiday section. We also had Winter clothes. At for some reason it snowed quite a bit in the 1960s. I'm not sure why, Normally there is very little snow in southern England. It probably seems srange to readers today, but we wire shorts during the winter as well. That was ot even common with the other boys in our neighborhood. Lots of family snapshots show us playing in the snow dressed in shorts. We were bunfled up though in warm caps, dufflecoats, kneesocks, and often Wellies.
We commonly wore shorts and "T"-shirts or polo-type shirts during the Summer, often with sandals. You can see our Summer clothing in the holiday section.
We also had Winter clothes. At for some reason it snowed quite a bit in the 1960s. I'm not sure why, Normally there is very little snow in southern England. It probably seems srange to readers today, but we wire shorts during the winter as well. That was ot even common with the other boys in our neighborhood. Lots of family snapshots show us playing in the snow dressed in shorts. We were bunfled up though in warm caps, dufflecoats, kneesocks, and often Wellies. We loved all the snow. Several pictures from the family album from 1968 show that. Here we are playing in the back garden (figure 1). Dad had made two wooden sledges for
us and in one picture you can see me being pulled by my brother Michael, while other brothers and friends are gathered round a huge snowball. In another picture Michael is standing on the snowball while I'm looking at the camera. Whenever we were going out in the winter, mum was always saying "wrap up warm" and making us wear things like gloves, scarves or balaclavas.
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