Figure 1.-- Here Ibam with my little brother Bernard in 1954. I am wearing " Culotte à bavette " which were very popular in the 1950s. These bib-front short pants were made into plain material. The most common material was " Boussac ". They buttoned at each part of the waist and were made without a fly. They were usually cut full. French boys age 6- 10 years old wore these shorts with the bib front or sust suspendr straps during the 1950s.

Of course I remember even more about my boyhood clothes as I got older. After I stopped wearing rimpers I mostky wore short pants. I wore them basically year round. I think that I was occassionaly dressed in long trousers a few time, nut my memories are dim about this. It would have only during the winter when it really got cold. Usually I wore shorts. I had different kinds, including " Culotte à bavette " (bib-front shorts). Here I am just after I stopped wearing rompers wearing bib-front shirts. I wore shorts with both ankle sicks and knee sicks. I remember I liked the short trousers contrary to the opinion of some of my friends as we got older. About the short pants, In reality, we, French boys under 14 years old during the 1940s and 50s did not really think much about it. It was just considered the ordinary clothes to wear. This began to change in the late-50s and early-60s. In fact the teenagers wearing longs pants often were children coming from poor or foreign family.] For my last primary school year I still wore short pants, that was in 1961 when I was just 14 years old. I knew that my life as teenager was going to be a great step. With sadness I knew that rompers and short trousers were put away for ever in the cupboard of my childhood. At age 14 years and 1 month, in November 1961 Maman bought to me my first long trousers.

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