Figure 1.--Here I am at about age 10 years of age. I think it was 1961. I am getting into the paddling pool at my uncle's house. I wasn't used to going barefoot on grass in those days - whence, perhaps, the expression on my face. My swimming trunks have always been more or less like these, usually some shade of red.

When I was a boy, the only kind of swimwear that I remember for men or boys was swimming trunks. These were close-fitting and brief. Neither school had any particular rules, except that they had to be a plain, fairly dark, colour. A photograph shows me at about age 10 years in 1961. I getting into a paddling pool at my uncle's house. I wasn't used to going barefoot on grass in those days -- whence, perhaps, the expression on my face. My swimming trunks have always been more or less like these, usually some shade of red. I don't know now why they were usually red.

David