Figure 1.--We have another camp image image taken in Avellino, a town near Naples, in 1959. These boys were photographed in the morning leaving for e seaside summer camp )colonia estiva). They wore short pants, white t-shirts and white sailor caps. They wore also open-toe sandals with white ankle-socks. Today that looks strange, but at the time it looked more formal than without socks. A reader tells us, "I was in colonia estiva for one summer, in 1970. We left Milan wearing open-toe sandals with socks, but then we spent the whole month without socks."

We have another camp image image taken in Avellino, a town near Naples, in 1959. These boys were photographed in the morning leaving for e seaside summer camp )colonia estiva). They wore short pants, white t-shirts and white sailor caps. They wore also open-toe sandals with white ankle-socks. Today that looks strange, but at the time it looked more formal than without socks. A reader tells us, "I was in colonia estiva for one summer, in 1970. We left Milan wearing open-toe sandals with socks, but then we spent the whole month without socks."

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