Figure 1.--This snapshot was probanly taken during Summer 1961 as there's no dog in the full photo. (We got her in October 1961.) Fairly typical summer clothing for me at home when I was young - shorts, and sandals without socks. Usually I would be wearing a short-sleeved shirt, but evidently not on this occasion. I don't remember it at all, I certainly didn't normally go around without a shirt in those days. It must have been really hot that day!

I mostly wore different kinds of short trousers in my prep-school years. When I was about 5 years old five I'd had corduroy shorts for winter wear, but after I was about eight these were not replaced; I can't remember what material the shorts were made of - probably wool in the winter and cotton in the summer. At one point I had a pair of jeans, but these I normally wore on top of my shorts, for very cold conditions. I never liked this procedure - it was my mother’s idea - and I would have preferred to stay in shorts and put up with cold knees. I always wore shorts for school, anyway, and all through the long hard winter of 1962-63 I wore shorts to school without problems. I had light-weight summer shorts. There is a photograph of me at home on a hot day without a shirt. This was a very rare occurrence - I can't remember the circumstances. During this period, the shorts came to a little above my knees, except for the last pair of school shorts I had, which were presumably bought to allow for growth which didn’t take place on schedule, and consequently reached down to the tops of my knees.

David