Figure 1.-- Most of what I know about my toddler years comes from our family snapshot albums. I see one snapshot of me in the garden, it looks like mid-afternoon, June 1952. So I'm a little past 1 year old. I'm wearing a one-piece shorts-cum-top, ankle socks and sandals.

Most of what I know about my toddler years comes from our family snapshot albums. I see one snapshot of me in the garden, it looks like mid-afternoon, June 1952. So I'm a little past 1 year old. I'm wearing a one-piece shorts-cum-top, ankle socks and sandals (figure 1 ). Growing up a bit, I progressed to a fairly normal combination of shirt and shorts, at least when it was warm. The shorts seem mostly to have had straps over the shoulders to hold them up, and at least one pair had a front panel (bib-front) as well. I had bib-front pants--both short and long bib-front dungareees which I think Americans call overalls. One series of photographs shows me wearing this without a shirt on a hot day. You can see that on the previous page. I vaguely recall finding the straps uncomfortable on bare shoulders. In the winter, I had dungarees (i.e. long trousers, with front panel and straps), which I would wear with a shirt and, in cold weather, a jersey or cardigan as well. This would sometimes be under the straps of the dungarees. I remember being rather sad when I grew out of the second (and last) pair of dungarees.

David