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We do not yet have any 1962 catalogs, but a British reader has sent us some informative ads for younger children's clothing from Parenting magazine in 1962. The ad have informstion on snow suits and other inclement weather garments, underwear, liberty bodices, and shoes. Some contain a good bit of useful garments about the various items.
We do not yet have any informatio on caps.
We notice range of cold weather coats for boys. Kamella produced casual clothes and inclenent weather wear. We do not know much about the company, but the name seems to be a play on cammel. And of course cammel hair overcoats were a popular standard. We notice a Kamella advertisement in Parents magazine During November 1962 offering inclement weather outerwear, both snow suits and rain suits for younger children.
Boys underwear included singlets and T-shirts and Y-front pants. (In Britain pants referred specifically to underpants nd was not used for trousers as in America. Colord underwear in bright colors including orange and red were popular with boys.
We note both ankle and kneesocks being offered. The kneesocks were increasingly for younger boys and exceot for school often not done with turn-over tops. Even for dressy outfits the boys like the boys in the Freemans catalog did not always wear kneesocks.
Styles of strap shoes were widely worn by English primary school children in the 1960s. A "T"-strap shoe was referred to as school sandals. May girls wore single-bar shoes to school. This was not common for boys, but pre-school boys did wear single-bar strap shoes. Start-rite was an important British manufacturer of children's shoes. An advertisement for Start-rite infant shoes. appeared in the November 1962 issue of Parenting magazine. It offered various styles of strap shoes for younger children. The British term 'infants' means todlers and younger primary school children.
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