Figure 1.--Here I am sitting on the gate of the farm at which we stayed in Cornwall in 1964. I'm wearing a short-sleeved shirt, jeans, and sandals without socks.

I wore sandals quite a lot as a boy, as was normal for all children. At the prep school we were required to wear sandals indoors; and at home I wore them indoors, and also outdoors in the summer. They were always the closed-toe T-strap type, usually from Clarks. I carried on wearing such sandals until I went to university, when I changed over to the open-toe variety which were cooler in hot weather and much more readily available in 1971. In my younger days, the usual alternative play shoes for boys were plimsolls (i.e. canvas shoes with rubber soles). These would be the same as they would wear for PE - quite possibly the same shoes, especially if indoor PE was done barefoot. I only ever wore plimsolls for PE, latterly only for outdoor PE in the winter because in the gym, and outside in the summer, I did PE barefoot.

David